How much revenue did PIXELS: Digital Creatures make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PIXELS: Digital Creatures sell?

Q: How many copies did PIXELS: Digital Creatures sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 41 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 PIXELS: Digital Creatures and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PIXELS: Digital Creatures's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–11k

best case 72k (Cat God Ranch)

Games like PIXELS: Digital Creatures

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–11k copies

≈ $13k–$53k after Steam's cut

from ~151 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Cat God Ranch at ≈ 55k–89k copies, ≈ $150k–$404k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 123 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 998.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Creature Collector (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Casual + Replay Value + Farming; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 36 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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