How much revenue did Cuppy's make?

$517–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cuppy's sell?

Q: How many copies did Cuppy's sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $517–$1k after Steam's cut $940–$2k before the cut; from 19 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 Cuppy's out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cuppy's's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–12.6M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Cuppy's

The middle of these games

≈ 4.6M–12.6M copies

≈ $34.9M–$165.2M after Steam's cut

from ~196k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 64k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 178k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (5 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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