How much revenue did Frebbventure make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Frebbventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Frebbventure sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 58 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before Steam's cut; from 58 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 Frebbventure and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Frebbventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–1.1M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Frebbventure

A typical game among these

≈ 52k–1.1M copies

≈ $216k–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 824 reviews in their first month; the range was 243 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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