How much revenue did Plateman make?

$982–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Plateman sell?

Q: How many copies did Plateman sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $982–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 16 reviews (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 Plateman out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plateman's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–36k

best case 800k (ANIMAL WELL)

Games like Plateman

The middle of these games

≈ 21k–36k copies

≈ $114k–$193k after Steam's cut

from ~677 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: ANIMAL WELL at ≈ 610k–991k copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 338 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 143 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Metroidvania, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 3 of your 8 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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