How much revenue did SquareMan make?

$34–$91 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SquareMan sell?

Q: How many copies did SquareMan sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $34–$91 after Steam's cut $61–$140 before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 SquareMan and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SquareMan's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–21k

best case 46k (Ambidextro)

Games like SquareMan

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–21k copies

≈ $10k–$52k after Steam's cut

from ~268 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: Ambidextro at ≈ 35k–57k copies, ≈ $77k–$207k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 87 reviews in their first month; the range was 22 to 929.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + 2D Platformer, priced around $8.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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Aim Climb 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $11k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before Steam's cut	$6.80	246 reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult
Goat's Tale (Classic) 2022	Est. copies ≈ 8k–14k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut	$1.99	335 reviews Very Positive	DifficultPsychological Horror
Ambidextro 2025	Est. copies ≈ 35k–57k 5.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $77k–$207k after Steam's cut $140k–$318k before Steam's cut	$7.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerAction
Ascent 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut	$4.99	100 reviews Very Positive	Precision Platformer2D Platformer
Philophobia: The Fear of Love 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut	$11.99	69 reviews Very Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult
Banana Hell 2020	Est. copies ≈ 21k–35k 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $18k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$73k before Steam's cut	$2.99	865 reviews Mixed	IndieCasual
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Splodey 2024	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $23k–$61k after Steam's cut $41k–$93k before Steam's cut	$12.99	255 reviews Very Positive	Precision PlatformerSide Scroller