How much revenue did Gloomhaven make?

$3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gloomhaven sell?

Q: How many copies did Gloomhaven sell?

399k to 649k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 399k–649k; $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before the cut; from 16k 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 Gloomhaven out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gloomhaven's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–15k

best case 27.8M (Baldur's Gate 3)

Games like Gloomhaven

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–15k copies

≈ $21k–$134k after Steam's cut

from ~166 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Turn-Based Tactics (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: Baldur's Gate 3 at ≈ 21.2M–34.4M copies, ≈ $349.3M–$939.1M 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 137 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 18 to 268k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Tactics (4 of 8) and Turn-Based Combat (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Story Rich, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry Character Customization + Story Rich + CRPG; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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