How much revenue did Penny’s Big Breakaway make?

$269k–$723k 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?

33k to 53k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 33k–53k; $269k–$723k after Steam's cut $489k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Penny’s Big Breakaway and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Penny’s Big Breakaway's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 756k–1.9M

best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)

Games like Penny’s Big Breakaway

A typical game among these

≈ 756k–1.9M copies

≈ $5.2M–$12.6M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.2M–$40.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 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.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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