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How many copies did Sock It sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 168–273
$230–$620 after Steam's cut $419–$954 before the cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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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) 11k–49k
best case 142k (The Legend of Tianding)
The Hack and Slash genre

3 of your 8 similar games are hits. A niche genre: plan for a small audience.

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

A typical game
≈ 11k–49k copies
≈ $88k–$444k after Steam's cut
from ~534 reviews
Best case
≈ 108k–176k copies
The Legend of Tianding · ≈ $594k–$1.6M after Steam's cut
The genre you'd be entering
The launch
The games that made it here had roughly 15 to 1k reviews in their first month.
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.

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count.

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