How much revenue did Alchemy Garden make?

$51k–$138k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alchemy Garden sell?

Q: How many copies did Alchemy Garden sell?

27k to 43k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–43k; $51k–$138k after Steam's cut $93k–$212k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 771k–1.4M

best case 1.6M (Slime Rancher 2)

Games like Alchemy Garden

The middle of these games

≈ 771k–1.4M copies

≈ $1.9M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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 Sandbox (3 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: Slime Rancher 2 at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $10.2M–$27.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 57 to 37k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (3 of 8) and Building (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + First-Person, priced around $30.
The era: Only 2 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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