How much revenue did Duck Life 4 make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Duck Life 4 sell?

Q: How many copies did Duck Life 4 sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 277 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut; from 277 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 Duck Life 4 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Duck Life 4's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 649k–857k

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Duck Life 4

A typical game among these

≈ 649k–857k copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Cult Classic (2 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M 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 Cult Classic (2 of 8) and Nudity (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + FPS + Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, 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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