How much revenue did Sokobond Express make?

$11k–$31k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sokobond Express sell?

Q: How many copies did Sokobond Express sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 111 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $11k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before Steam's cut; from 111 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 Sokobond Express and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sokobond Express's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–339k

best case 437k (The Talos Principle 2)

Games like Sokobond Express

A typical game among these

≈ 52k–339k copies

≈ $450k–$1.6M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Talos Principle 2 at ≈ 333k–541k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 445 reviews in their first month; the range was 91 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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