How much revenue did Pendelum make?

$163–$439 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pendelum sell?

Q: How many copies did Pendelum sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $163–$439 after Steam's cut $297–$675 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Pendelum and predicted how it would do from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Pendelum's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28k–38k

best case 45k (Marble It Up! Ultra)

Games like Pendelum

A typical game among these

≈ 28k–38k copies

≈ $109k–$321k after Steam's cut

from ~915 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 5 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Marble It Up! Ultra at ≈ 35k–56k copies, ≈ $286k–$768k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (5 of 5) and Arcade (4 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Fast-Paced, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 1 of the 5 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Rolled Out! 2021	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $61k–$163k after Steam's cut $110k–$250k before Steam's cut	$19.99	444 reviews Very Positive	RacingPrecision Platformer
7th Sector 2019	Est. copies ≈ 21k–33k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $62k–$167k after Steam's cut $113k–$257k before Steam's cut	$10.99	714 reviews Mostly Positive	3D PlatformerPuzzle-Platformer
Marble It Up! Ultra 2018	Est. copies ≈ 35k–56k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $286k–$768k after Steam's cut $519k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	1k reviews Very Positive	3D PlatformerFast-Paced
Hamilton's Great Adventure 2011	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $62k–$167k after Steam's cut $113k–$256k before Steam's cut	$9.99	357 reviews Mostly Positive	Local Co-OpAdventure
hololive Treasure Mountain 2024	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $56k–$151k after Steam's cut $102k–$232k before Steam's cut	$8.99	915 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualCute