How much revenue did MEAT make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MEAT sell?

Q: How many copies did MEAT sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 211 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$42k before Steam's cut; from 211 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 MEAT and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MEAT's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 703k–900k

best case 2.6M (Diablo® IV)

Games like MEAT

A typical game among these

≈ 703k–900k copies

≈ $5.4M–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Diablo® IV at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $26.8M–$72.1M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (6 of 8) and Action RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Isometric + Singleplayer + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, 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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