How much revenue did Press Any Button make?

$52k–$140k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Press Any Button sell?

Q: How many copies did Press Any Button sell?

95k to 155k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 95k–155k; $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$216k before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Press Any Button and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Press Any Button's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 527k–858k

best case 7.2M (To the Moon)

Games like Press Any Button

A typical game among these

≈ 527k–858k copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: To the Moon at ≈ 5.5M–8.9M copies, ≈ $15.0M–$40.4M after Steam's cut. 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 621 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Emotional (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Emotional, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + RPGMaker + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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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