How much revenue did The Otterman Empire make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Otterman Empire sell?

Q: How many copies did The Otterman Empire sell?

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

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 27 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid The Otterman Empire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Otterman Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–3.0M

best case 2.6M (Party Animals)

Games like The Otterman Empire

A typical game among these

≈ 2.5M–3.0M copies

≈ $16.1M–$20.9M after Steam's cut

from ~63k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Party Animals at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 67 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 22k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party Game (6 of 8) and 4 Player Local (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Co-op, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of the 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 52 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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