How much revenue did Cloak and Dasher make?

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

How many copies did Cloak and Dasher sell?

Q: How many copies did Cloak and Dasher sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 50 reviews (Very 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 Cloak and Dasher and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cloak and Dasher's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–23k

best case 35k (JellyCar Worlds)

Games like Cloak and Dasher

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–23k copies

≈ $4k–$67k after Steam's cut

from ~242 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: JellyCar Worlds at ≈ 27k–44k copies, ≈ $59k–$159k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 35 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 192.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + 2D Platformer, priced around $8.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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Tick Hop 2025	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$17k before Steam's cut	$2.99	207 reviews Mostly Positive	RacingPrecision Platformer
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