How much revenue did Kartoffl make?

$681–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kartoffl sell?

Q: How many copies did Kartoffl sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $681–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 10 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 Kartoffl and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kartoffl's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65k–197k

best case 176k (Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2)

Games like Kartoffl

A typical game among these

≈ 65k–197k copies

≈ $692k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 at ≈ 134k–218k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 404 reviews in their first month; the range was 319 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and VR (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Horror, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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