How much revenue did Joy the Pug make?

$20–$55 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Joy the Pug sell?

Q: How many copies did Joy the Pug sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $20–$55 after Steam's cut $37–$84 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 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 Joy the Pug and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Joy the Pug's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 493k–653k

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Joy the Pug

A typical game among these

≈ 493k–653k copies

≈ $2.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (6 of 8) and Metroidvania (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Combat + Fantasy, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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