How much revenue did Sock It make?

$239–$640 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sock It sell?

Q: How many copies did Sock It sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $239–$640 after Steam's cut $434–$985 before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–51k

best case 143k (The Legend of Tianding)

Games like Sock It

The middle of these games

≈ 12k–51k copies

≈ $93k–$464k after Steam's cut

from ~537 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Legend of Tianding at ≈ 109k–177k copies, ≈ $597k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 230 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (7 of 8) and 2D Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Combat + Martial Arts, priced around $20.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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