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How many copies did Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 168k–274k
$231k–$621k after Steam's cut $420k–$956k before the cut
from 6k reviews (Very 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 Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 61k–127k
best case 218k (Duck Detective: The Secret Salami)
Games like Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island

The middle of these games

≈ 61k–127k copies

≈ $153k–$376k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Duck Detective: The Secret Salami at ≈ 166k–270k copies, ≈ $456k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 683 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Detective (8 of 8) and Mystery (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Detective + Investigation, priced around $10.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, and 2 of your 8 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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