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How many copies did Romeow: to the cracked Mars sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut
from 65 reviews (Very 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 Romeow: to the cracked Mars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Romeow: to the cracked Mars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–106k
best case 158k (Cats Organized Neatly)
Games like Romeow: to the cracked Mars

A typical game among these

≈ 40k–106k copies

≈ $19k–$136k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Cats Organized Neatly at ≈ 120k–195k copies, ≈ $99k–$265k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 154 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 807.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Cats (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Cats + Puzzle, priced around $3.
When they shipped
Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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