How much revenue did Gem Rush make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gem Rush sell?

Q: How many copies did Gem Rush sell?

669 to 1k copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 669–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before the cut; from 22 reviews (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 Rush out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gem Rush's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 114–684

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Gem Rush

The middle of these games

≈ 114–684 copies

≈ $163–$777 after Steam's cut

from ~7 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Board Game (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: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 23 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (4 of 8) and Mining (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Auto Battler + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 36 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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