How much revenue did Haiku, the Robot make?

$486k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Haiku, the Robot sell?

Q: How many copies did Haiku, the Robot sell?

88k to 144k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 88k–144k; $486k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $884k–$2.0M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Haiku, the Robot out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Haiku, the Robot's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–6k

best case 913k (SteamWorld Dig)

Games like Haiku, the Robot

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–6k copies

≈ $21k–$39k after Steam's cut

from ~159 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: SteamWorld Dig at ≈ 696k–1.1M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 65 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 131.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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