How much revenue did Sackboy™: A Big Adventure make?

$1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sackboy™: A Big Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Sackboy™: A Big Adventure sell?

111k to 180k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 111k–180k; $1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.5M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Sackboy™: A Big Adventure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sackboy™: A Big Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.7M–40.7M

best case 128.9M (Terraria)

Games like Sackboy™: A Big Adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 9.7M–40.7M copies

≈ $83.6M–$161.1M after Steam's cut

from ~341k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Terraria at ≈ 98.2M–159.6M copies, ≈ $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and Story Rich (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2021, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Terraria 2011	Est. copies ≈ 98.2M–159.6M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut $490.5M–$1115.8M before the cut	$9.99	1.6M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
Starbound 2016	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.1M–$56.8M after Steam's cut $38.4M–$87.5M before the cut	$14.99	123k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
Brawlhalla 2017	Est. copies ≈ 14.2M–23.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	412k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
Cuphead 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $41.7M–$112.1M after Steam's cut $75.8M–$172.5M before the cut	$19.99	220k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DifficultCartoon
Tomb Raider Game of the Year 2013	Est. copies ≈ 17.0M–27.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $93.7M–$251.9M after Steam's cut $170.4M–$387.6M before the cut	$19.99	270k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction
It Takes Two 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6.7M–10.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $73.4M–$197.4M after Steam's cut $133.5M–$303.6M before the cut	$39.99	269k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–47.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut $147.2M–$334.8M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 35.7M–58.0M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut $89.1M–$202.7M before the cut	$4.99	638k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic