How much revenue did Leaper make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Leaper sell?

Q: How many copies did Leaper sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 48 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 48 reviews (Mixed)

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 Leaper and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Leaper's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 35k–74k

best case 114k (I wanna be the Creator)

Games like Leaper

A typical game among these

≈ 35k–74k copies

≈ $108k–$205k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: I wanna be the Creator at ≈ 87k–141k copies, ≈ $143k–$384k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 435 reviews in their first month; the range was 303 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (6 of 8) and Side Scroller (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Level Editor + Platformer, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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