How much revenue did PEPPERED: an existential platformer make?

$73k–$197k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PEPPERED: an existential platformer sell?

Q: How many copies did PEPPERED: an existential platformer sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 718 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $73k–$197k after Steam's cut $133k–$304k before Steam's cut; from 718 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 PEPPERED: an existential platformer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PEPPERED: an existential platformer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.9M–10.1M

best case 22.0M (Undertale)

Games like PEPPERED: an existential platformer

A typical game among these

≈ 6.9M–10.1M copies

≈ $53.6M–$97.5M after Steam's cut

from ~264k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Precision Platformer (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Undertale at ≈ 16.8M–27.2M copies, ≈ $46.0M–$123.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 508 reviews in their first month; the range was 31 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Precision Platformer (4 of 8) and Story Rich (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Undertale 2015	Est. copies ≈ 16.8M–27.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $46.0M–$123.8M after Steam's cut $83.7M–$190.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	343k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackStory Rich
Detroit: Become Human 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $72.1M–$193.9M after Steam's cut $131.1M–$298.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	264k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choices MatterStory Rich
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut $45.3M–$103.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	149k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.3M–8.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut $52.9M–$120.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	108k reviews Very Positive	StealthOpen World
Hades 2020	Est. copies ≈ 7.7M–12.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $52.9M–$142.2M after Steam's cut $96.1M–$218.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	310k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
Hans 2023	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before Steam's cut	$4.99	794 reviews Very Positive	DifficultPrecision Platformer
99 Fails Lite 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	65 reviews Very Positive	Precision PlatformerSide Scroller
Driving Is Hard 2025	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before Steam's cut	$6.99	263 reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult