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How many copies did The Annoying Game sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 74–121
$81–$220 after Steam's cut $148–$338 before Steam's cut
from 3 reviews (3 user reviews)
Only 3 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 The Annoying Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Annoying Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 623k–3.8M
best case 5.9M (Celeste)
Games like The Annoying Game

A typical game among these

≈ 623k–3.8M copies

≈ $4.4M–$24.9M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Platformer (7 of 8) and 2D Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2009 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).

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