How much revenue did Swinging-Man make?

$375–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Swinging-Man sell?

Q: How many copies did Swinging-Man sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $375–$1k after Steam's cut $681–$2k before Steam's cut; from 11 reviews (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 Swinging-Man and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Swinging-Man's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.6M–10.2M

best case 33.8M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)

Games like Swinging-Man

A typical game among these

≈ 7.6M–10.2M copies

≈ $62.0M–$106.0M after Steam's cut

from ~213k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.8M–41.9M copies, ≈ $106.2M–$285.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 30k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, 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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Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut $16.5M–$37.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	267k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth 2014	Est. copies ≈ 25.8M–41.9M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $106.2M–$285.5M after Steam's cut $193.0M–$439.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	460k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
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