How much revenue did COCOON make?

$1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did COCOON sell?

Q: How many copies did COCOON sell?

226k to 367k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 226k–367k; $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 COCOON and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including COCOON's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 549k–888k

best case 1.1M (Chants of Sennaar)

Games like COCOON

A typical game among these

≈ 549k–888k copies

≈ $3.9M–$5.8M 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.

Best case: Chants of Sennaar at ≈ 869k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.8M–$12.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 487 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Point & Click, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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