How much revenue did Banana Hell make?

$18k–$47k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Banana Hell sell?

Q: How many copies did Banana Hell sell?

21k to 35k copies, based on its 865 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–35k; $18k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$73k before Steam's cut; from 865 reviews (Mixed)

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 Banana Hell and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Banana Hell's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 219k–623k

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Banana Hell

A typical game among these

≈ 219k–623k copies

≈ $1.7M–$6.3M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 910 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (6 of 8) and 2D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + 2D Platformer, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Indie + 2D Platformer + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M 19x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut $45.3M–$103.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	149k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult
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