How much revenue did Jumphobia: Homeward Bound make?

$953–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Jumphobia: Homeward Bound sell?

Q: How many copies did Jumphobia: Homeward Bound sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 14 reviews (Mostly 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 Jumphobia: Homeward Bound and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Jumphobia: Homeward Bound's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 171k–356k

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Jumphobia: Homeward Bound

A typical game among these

≈ 171k–356k copies

≈ $1.1M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 399 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Precision Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Indie + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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