How much revenue did Move 78 make?

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

How many copies did Move 78 sell?

Q: How many copies did Move 78 sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before Steam's cut; from 50 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 Move 78 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Move 78's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.4M

best case 4.2M (Helltaker)

Games like Move 78

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–2.4M copies

≈ $5.2M–$16.4M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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: Helltaker at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (7 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Demons + Puzzle.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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Helltaker 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	128k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Free to PlayCute
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