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How big is Fighting Fiends?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 2k–3k
from 63 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 Fighting Fiends and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fighting Fiends's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–21k
best case 100k (Boomerang Fu)
Games like Fighting Fiends

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–21k copies

≈ $18k–$124k after Steam's cut

from ~183 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Boomerang Fu at ≈ 76k–124k copies, ≈ $313k–$842k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 15 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 137.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share 4 Player Local (5 of 8) and Fighting (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with 4 Player Local + Party Game, priced around $15.
When they shipped
None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.
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 61 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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