How much revenue did Progressbar95 make?

$125k–$337k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Progressbar95 sell?

Q: How many copies did Progressbar95 sell?

91k to 148k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 91k–148k; $125k–$337k after Steam's cut $228k–$519k before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Progressbar95 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Progressbar95's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 90k–241k

best case 458k (Nodebuster)

Games like Progressbar95

A typical game among these

≈ 90k–241k copies

≈ $99k–$615k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Arcade (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Nodebuster at ≈ 349k–567k copies, ≈ $287k–$771k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 678 reviews in their first month; the range was 229 to 757.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (3 of 8) and Experimental (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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