How many copies did Micro Platformer sell?

44k to 71k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Micro Platformer make?

Micro Platformer is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Micro Platformer?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 44k–71k; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Micro Platformer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Micro Platformer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 85k–284k

best case 876k (VVVVVV)

Games like Micro Platformer

A typical game among these

≈ 85k–284k copies

≈ $134k–$941k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: VVVVVV at ≈ 667k–1.1M copies, ≈ $916k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (6 of 8) and Precision Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, 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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