How much revenue did Puppy Cross make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Puppy Cross sell?

Q: How many copies did Puppy Cross sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 300 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $19k–$42k before Steam's cut; from 300 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 Puppy Cross and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Puppy Cross's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–116k

best case 337k (Enigma of Fear)

Games like Puppy Cross

A typical game among these

≈ 36k–116k copies

≈ $59k–$498k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Enigma of Fear at ≈ 257k–417k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 199 reviews in their first month; the range was 53 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Dog (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mystery + Investigation, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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 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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