How much revenue did Don't Byte Your Tongue make?

$408–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Don't Byte Your Tongue sell?

Q: How many copies did Don't Byte Your Tongue sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before Steam's cut; from 20 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 Don't Byte Your Tongue and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Don't Byte Your Tongue's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 102k–965k

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Don't Byte Your Tongue

A typical game among these

≈ 102k–965k copies

≈ $249k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 749 reviews in their first month; the range was 192 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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 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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