How much revenue did Pink Gum make?

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

How many copies did Pink Gum sell?

Q: How many copies did Pink Gum sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 43 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 43 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 Pink Gum and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pink Gum's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 537–5k

best case 15k (Sunlight)

Games like Pink Gum

A typical game among these

≈ 537–5k copies

≈ $1k–$7k after Steam's cut

from ~40 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sunlight at ≈ 12k–19k copies, ≈ $13k–$34k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 26 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 121.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Experimental (6 of 8) and Philosophical (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Experimental + Walking Simulator, priced around $4.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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