How much revenue did Giraffe and Annika make?

$49k–$131k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Giraffe and Annika sell?

Q: How many copies did Giraffe and Annika sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 357 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $49k–$131k after Steam's cut $88k–$201k before Steam's cut; from 357 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 Giraffe and Annika and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Giraffe and Annika's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 137k–1.0M

best case 4.6M (Muse Dash)

Games like Giraffe and Annika

A typical game among these

≈ 137k–1.0M copies

≈ $820k–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Muse Dash at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 780 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rhythm (8 of 8) and Female Protagonist (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Rhythm, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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 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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