How much revenue did Jet Kave Adventure make?

$14k–$37k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Jet Kave Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Jet Kave Adventure sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 135 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$57k before Steam's cut; from 135 reviews (Very 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 Jet Kave Adventure and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Jet Kave Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 644k–1.3M

best case 1.9M (Skul: The Hero Slayer)

Games like Jet Kave Adventure

A typical game among these

≈ 644k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.5M–$10.6M 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Metroidvania (4 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: Skul: The Hero Slayer at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.9M–$21.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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 52 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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SANABI 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.4M after Steam's cut $8.4M–$19.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	45k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsStory Rich
Touhou Luna Nights 2019	Est. copies ≈ 432k–701k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.8M before Steam's cut	$17.99	15k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MetroidvaniaDifficult
Skul: The Hero Slayer 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.9M–$21.2M after Steam's cut $14.3M–$32.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	58k reviews Very Positive	IndieAction
Neon Abyss 2020	Est. copies ≈ 586k–952k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.6M after Steam's cut $9.2M–$21.0M before Steam's cut	$31.49	24k reviews Very Positive	Rogue-like Platformer
Rabi-Ribi 2016	Est. copies ≈ 511k–830k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.4M before Steam's cut	$17.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeMetroidvania
Sonic Mania 2017	Est. copies ≈ 995k–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	29k reviews Very Positive	Great Soundtrack2D
The Messenger 2018	Est. copies ≈ 404k–656k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	13k reviews Very Positive	RetroPlatformer
Blasphemous 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 540k–878k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.7M–$18.0M after Steam's cut $12.1M–$27.6M before Steam's cut	$44.99	22k reviews Very Positive	CombatFantasy