How much revenue did Kungfu Cowboy make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kungfu Cowboy sell?

Q: How many copies did Kungfu Cowboy sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 31 reviews (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 Kungfu Cowboy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kungfu Cowboy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–147k

best case 769k (Neon Abyss)

Games like Kungfu Cowboy

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–147k copies

≈ $59k–$359k 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (4 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: Neon Abyss at ≈ 586k–952k copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 803 reviews in their first month; the range was 280 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Platformer, priced around $31.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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