How many copies did Cloud Climber sell?

103k to 167k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Cloud Climber make?

Cloud Climber is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Cloud Climber?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 103k–167k; from 4k 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 Cloud Climber and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cloud Climber's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 357k–3.2M

best case 27.5M (Fallout 4)

Games like Cloud Climber

A typical game among these

≈ 357k–3.2M copies

≈ $4.0M–$31.9M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Fallout 4 at ≈ 21.0M–34.1M copies, ≈ $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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 70 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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The Talos Principle 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 333k–541k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle Story Rich
Fallout 4 VR 2017	Est. copies ≈ 302k–490k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut $9.1M–$20.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	9k reviews Mixed	VROpen World
The Long Dark 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.3M–6.9M 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.4M–$63.0M after Steam's cut $42.6M–$97.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	124k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
Fallout 4 2015	Est. copies ≈ 21.0M–34.1M 19x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut $209.4M–$476.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	429k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldPost-apocalyptic
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The Talos Principle 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut $27.8M–$63.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePhilosophical
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