How much revenue did Aruna make?

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

How many copies did Aruna sell?

Q: How many copies did Aruna sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 68k–114k

best case 498k (Webbed)

Games like Aruna

A typical game among these

≈ 68k–114k copies

≈ $269k–$455k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Webbed at ≈ 380k–617k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 593 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Platformer, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Platformer + Physics + Puzzle-Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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