How much revenue did Sly Slime make?

$665–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sly Slime sell?

Q: How many copies did Sly Slime sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 49 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $665–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 49 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 Sly Slime and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sly Slime's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 505k–738k

best case 638k (Nubby's Number Factory)

Games like Sly Slime

A typical game among these

≈ 505k–738k copies

≈ $965k–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Nubby's Number Factory at ≈ 486k–790k copies, ≈ $667k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Physics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Arcade, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2025, 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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