How much revenue did Alephant make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alephant sell?

Q: How many copies did Alephant sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 59 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before the cut; from 59 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Alephant out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alephant's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 43k–94k

best case 929k (Baba Is You)

Games like Alephant

The middle of these games

≈ 43k–94k copies

≈ $103k–$805k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Baba Is You at ≈ 708k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 185 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 152 to 897.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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Chip's Challenge 1 2015	Est. copies ≈ 47k–77k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	971 reviews Very Positive	PuzzleSokoban
Hexologic 2018	Est. copies ≈ 41k–67k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $57k–$153k after Steam's cut $103k–$235k before the cut	$4.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	LogicPuzzle
Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 708k–1.1M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before the cut	$14.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
Linelith 2022	Est. copies ≈ 37k–59k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $30k–$81k after Steam's cut $55k–$124k before the cut	$2.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualPuzzle
Akin 2016	Est. copies ≈ 41k–67k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $56k–$151k after Steam's cut $102k–$233k before the cut	$4.99	987 reviews Mostly Positive	CasualIndie
Patrick's Parabox 2022	Est. copies ≈ 144k–234k 4.9x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $793k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before the cut	$19.99	6k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleSokoban
I'm on Observation Duty 5 2022	Est. copies ≈ 20k–33k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $56k–$149k after Steam's cut $101k–$230k before the cut	$9.99	816 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Can of Wormholes 2023	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $81k–$217k after Steam's cut $146k–$333k before the cut	$19.99	591 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SokobanIndie