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How many copies did Salamander County Public Television sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–12k
$20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$82k before Steam's cut
from 290 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 Salamander County Public Television and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Salamander County Public Television's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.8M–15.5M
best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)
Games like Salamander County Public Television

A typical game among these

≈ 4.8M–15.5M copies

≈ $16.7M–$91.7M after Steam's cut

from ~154k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Battle Royale (2 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 77k reviews in their first month; the range was 115 to 129k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Battle Royale (2 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2022, 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 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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