How much revenue did Penny’s Big Breakaway make?

$267k–$718k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Penny’s Big Breakaway sell?

Q: How many copies did Penny’s Big Breakaway sell?

32k to 53k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–53k; $267k–$718k after Steam's cut $486k–$1.1M before the cut; from 1k 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 Penny’s Big Breakaway out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Penny’s Big Breakaway's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 750k–1.9M

best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)

Games like Penny’s Big Breakaway

The middle of these games

≈ 750k–1.9M copies

≈ $5.1M–$12.5M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.2M–$40.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (7 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Cute + Collectathon + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 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 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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