How much revenue did Block Motion make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Block Motion sell?

Q: How many copies did Block Motion sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 10 reviews (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 Block Motion and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Block Motion's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 211k–324k

best case 311k (while True: learn())

Games like Block Motion

A typical game among these

≈ 211k–324k copies

≈ $1.5M–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: while True: learn() at ≈ 237k–386k copies, ≈ $848k–$2.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 454 reviews in their first month; the range was 252 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Logic (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Simulation, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 1 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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