How much revenue did Panic Porcupine make?

$5k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Panic Porcupine sell?

Q: How many copies did Panic Porcupine sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 85 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut; from 85 reviews (Very 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 Panic Porcupine and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Panic Porcupine's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 148k–313k

best case 3.3M (Super Meat Boy)

Games like Panic Porcupine

A typical game among these

≈ 148k–313k copies

≈ $669k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Super Meat Boy at ≈ 2.5M–4.0M copies, ≈ $10.2M–$27.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (7 of 8) and Precision Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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