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How many copies did Jeebo & Jerbo vs. Life sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 273–443
$375–$1k after Steam's cut $681–$2k before Steam's cut
from 11 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 Jeebo & Jerbo vs. Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Jeebo & Jerbo vs. Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 623k–5.2M
best case 25.6M (Hollow Knight)
Games like Jeebo & Jerbo vs. Life

A typical game among these

≈ 623k–5.2M copies

≈ $3.7M–$78.9M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.5M–31.6M copies, ≈ $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 23k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Metroidvania (7 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 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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