How much revenue did Squidoku make?

$27–$73 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Squidoku sell?

Q: How many copies did Squidoku sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $27–$73 after Steam's cut $49–$112 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 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 Squidoku and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Squidoku's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–31k

best case 124k (Lakeview Cabin Collection)

Games like Squidoku

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–31k copies

≈ $12k–$154k after Steam's cut

from ~257 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Lakeview Cabin Collection at ≈ 95k–154k copies, ≈ $260k–$699k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 52 reviews in their first month; the range was 13 to 181.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle-Platformer (7 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival Horror + 2D Platformer, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, 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 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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