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How many copies did Sticky Paws sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut
from 45 reviews (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 Sticky Paws and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sticky Paws's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 167k–2.4M
best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)
Games like Sticky Paws

A typical game among these

≈ 167k–2.4M copies

≈ $766k–$18.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 749 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Precision Platformer (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2010 to 2023, and none of them 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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