How much revenue did Mega Knockdown make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mega Knockdown sell?

Q: How many copies did Mega Knockdown sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 77 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 77 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 Mega Knockdown and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mega Knockdown's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 76k–107k

best case 18.7M (Brawlhalla)

Games like Mega Knockdown

A typical game among these

≈ 76k–107k copies

≈ $614k–$929k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Brawlhalla at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Fighter (7 of 8) and Fighting (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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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