How much revenue did The Colorful Creature make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Colorful Creature sell?

Q: How many copies did The Colorful Creature sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 48 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 48 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 The Colorful Creature and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Colorful Creature's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–529k

best case 1.5M (DDNet)

Games like The Colorful Creature

A typical game among these

≈ 30k–529k copies

≈ $107k–$641k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DDNet at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 471 reviews in their first month; the range was 100 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Precision Platformer (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Precision Platformer.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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