How much revenue did Kursor make?

$651–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kursor sell?

Q: How many copies did Kursor 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; $651–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k 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 Kursor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kursor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 140k–740k

best case 2.1M (Super Hexagon)

Games like Kursor

A typical game among these

≈ 140k–740k copies

≈ $451k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Super Hexagon at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fast-Paced (8 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fast-Paced + Arcade, priced around $3.
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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