How much revenue did Gem Forge make?

$793–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gem Forge sell?

Q: How many copies did Gem Forge sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 70 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $793–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 70 reviews (Very Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 427k–618k

best case 674k (Bejeweled® 3)

Games like Gem Forge

The middle of these games

≈ 427k–618k copies

≈ $824k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Bejeweled® 3 at ≈ 513k–834k copies, ≈ $704k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Match 3 (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Match 3, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, and none of them 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 79 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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Chains 2009	Est. copies ≈ 38k–62k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	608 reviews Mostly Positive	Match 3Puzzle
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Bejeweled® 3 2010	Est. copies ≈ 513k–834k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $704k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut	$4.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleCasual
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