How much revenue did Pier Pressure make?

$987–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pier Pressure sell?

Q: How many copies did Pier Pressure sell?

719 to 1k copies, based on its 29 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 719–1k; $987–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 29 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 Pier Pressure and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pier Pressure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–7.7M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Pier Pressure

A typical game among these

≈ 3.9M–7.7M copies

≈ $18.9M–$32.7M after Steam's cut

from ~119k 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 Co-op (2 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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (2 of 8) and Gore (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Combat + World War II; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M 6.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
Brotato 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	119k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSingleplayer
Hotline Miami 2012	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.3M–$60.0M after Steam's cut $40.6M–$92.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	128k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackViolent
Broforce 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut $22.3M–$50.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	61k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AmericaAction
World of Tanks Blitz 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	153k reviews Mostly Positive	TanksFree to Play
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.2M–$43.5M after Steam's cut $29.4M–$66.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	80k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackGore
World of Warships 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	157k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayNaval Combat
World of Tanks 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	101k reviews Mostly Positive	TanksFree to Play