How much revenue did Flower Challenge make?

$50k–$136k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flower Challenge sell?

Q: How many copies did Flower Challenge sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $50k–$136k after Steam's cut $92k–$209k before Steam's cut; from 37 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Flower Challenge and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Flower Challenge's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–166k

best case 352k (ALTF4)

Games like Flower Challenge

A typical game among these

≈ 66k–166k copies

≈ $315k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (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: ALTF4 at ≈ 268k–435k copies, ≈ $220k–$592k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 54 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (4 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Runner + Physics, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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 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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ALTF4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 268k–435k 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $220k–$592k after Steam's cut $400k–$911k before Steam's cut	$2.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	RunnerPhysics
Valley 2016	Est. copies ≈ 279k–453k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	AdventureFirst-Person
Praey for the Gods 2021	Est. copies ≈ 78k–127k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $645k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Adventure3D Platformer
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Die Young 2019	Est. copies ≈ 55k–89k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $151k–$406k after Steam's cut $274k–$624k before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldAdventure
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