How much revenue did Sam & MaRU make?

$340–$918 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sam & MaRU sell?

Q: How many copies did Sam & MaRU sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $340–$918 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews 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 Sam & MaRU and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sam & MaRU's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–10k

best case 23k (Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft)

Games like Sam & MaRU

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–10k copies

≈ $23k–$77k after Steam's cut

from ~149 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft at ≈ 17k–28k copies, ≈ $72k–$193k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 66 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 701.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Programming (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Education + Programming, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2026, and 3 of the 8 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 43 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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