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How many copies did Marrow sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–4k
$7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before the cut
from 59 reviews (Mostly Positive)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–4.3M
best case 12.0M (People Playground)
Games like Marrow

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–4.3M copies

≈ $14.1M–$30.7M after Steam's cut

from ~55k 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.

Best case: People Playground at ≈ 9.1M–14.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 12k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Gore (8 of 8) and Violent (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Moddable + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, 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 61 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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