How much revenue did Forklift Load make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Forklift Load sell?

Q: How many copies did Forklift Load sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 156 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 156 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 Forklift Load and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forklift Load's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–7k

best case 153k (*NEW* SCUFFED EPIC BHOP SIMULATOR 2023 (POG CHAMP))

Games like Forklift Load

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–7k copies

≈ $5k–$10k after Steam's cut

from ~176 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC BHOP SIMULATOR 2023 (POG CHAMP) at ≈ 116k–189k copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 53 reviews in their first month; the range was 13 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (7 of 8) and Open World (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + 3D Platformer, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Colorful + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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