How much revenue did SNIKS make?

$714–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SNIKS sell?

Q: How many copies did SNIKS sell?

868 to 1k copies, based on its 35 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 868–1k; $714–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 35 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 SNIKS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SNIKS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–98k

best case 606k (LYNE)

Games like SNIKS

A typical game among these

≈ 52k–98k copies

≈ $40k–$401k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: LYNE at ≈ 462k–750k copies, ≈ $380k–$1.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 257 reviews in their first month; the range was 58 to 404.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Arcade (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2022, 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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DUSK '82: ULTIMATE EDITION 2021	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$90k before Steam's cut	$6.99	457 reviews Very Positive	Puzzle2D
hexceed 2021	Est. copies ≈ 69k–112k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayCasual
LYNE 2014	Est. copies ≈ 462k–750k 5.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $380k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $690k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$2.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleLogic
Last Call BBS 2022	Est. copies ≈ 40k–64k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $218k–$585k after Steam's cut $396k–$900k before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleRetro
Chains 2009	Est. copies ≈ 39k–63k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	610 reviews Mostly Positive	Match 3Puzzle
Chip's Challenge 1 2015	Est. copies ≈ 48k–77k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	976 reviews Very Positive	PuzzleSokoban
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