How many copies did Stash sell?

23k to 38k copies, based on its 678 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Stash make?

Stash is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Stash?

Estimated owners: ≈ 23k–38k; from 678 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Stash out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stash's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 42k–96k

best case 1.0M (Dwarf Fortress)

Games like Stash

The middle of these games

≈ 42k–96k copies

≈ $274k–$845k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Dwarf Fortress at ≈ 780k–1.3M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 748 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 415 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 8) and Management (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Colony Sim, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Dwarf + Colony Sim + Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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