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How many copies did Electrify sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 149–242
$164–$441 after Steam's cut $298–$678 before Steam's cut
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Only 6 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 Electrify and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Electrify's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–2.6M
best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)
Games like Electrify

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–2.6M copies

≈ $10.0M–$24.8M after Steam's cut

from ~46k 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: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.5M–15.4M copies, ≈ $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 38k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Sandbox (8 of 8) and Physics (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2022, 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 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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