How much revenue did Residual make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Residual sell?

Q: How many copies did Residual sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut; from 32 reviews (Mostly 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 Residual and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Residual's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 104k–196k

best case 498k (Webbed)

Games like Residual

A typical game among these

≈ 104k–196k copies

≈ $495k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Webbed at ≈ 380k–617k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 399 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (6 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Physics, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Physics + Cute + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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