How much revenue did Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® make?

$236k–$634k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® sell?

Q: How many copies did Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® sell?

287k to 466k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 287k–466k; $236k–$634k after Steam's cut $429k–$976k before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 348k–1.4M

best case 5.2M (LIMBO)

Games like Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®

A typical game among these

≈ 348k–1.4M copies

≈ $1.6M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: LIMBO at ≈ 3.9M–6.4M copies, ≈ $13.5M–$36.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $12.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2016, 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 52 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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LIMBO 2011	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M 6.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.5M–$36.3M after Steam's cut $24.5M–$55.8M before Steam's cut	$12.49	62k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerIndie
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