How much revenue did Kindergarten make?

$500k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kindergarten sell?

Q: How many copies did Kindergarten sell?

364k to 592k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 364k–592k; $500k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $909k–$2.1M before the cut; from 11k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Kindergarten out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kindergarten's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 858k–1.0M

best case 11.4M (POSTAL 2)

Games like Kindergarten

The middle of these games

≈ 858k–1.0M copies

≈ $6.1M–$12.9M after Steam's cut

from ~28k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Gore (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: POSTAL 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.1M copies, ≈ $23.8M–$64.0M 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 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (4 of 8) and Violent (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Dark Humor, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Funny + Sandbox + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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 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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