How much revenue did Marabundle make?

$953–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Marabundle sell?

Q: How many copies did Marabundle sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 14 reviews (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 Marabundle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Marabundle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.8M–22.1M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Marabundle

A typical game among these

≈ 4.8M–22.1M copies

≈ $50.8M–$85.3M after Steam's cut

from ~174k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Card Game (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 23k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2024, and 1 of the 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–48.0M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut $147.5M–$335.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	467k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Inscryption 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $20.3M–$54.6M after Steam's cut $36.9M–$84.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	149k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Card BattlerCard Game
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.6M–20.5M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut $63.0M–$143.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	199k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Golfie 2023	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $52k–$139k after Steam's cut $94k–$213k before Steam's cut	$17.99	420 reviews Mixed	PvPAction
Ori and the Will of the Wisps 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.0M–$80.6M after Steam's cut $54.5M–$124.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	147k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulMetroidvania
The Prometheus Secret Noohra 2019	Est. copies ≈ 173–281 too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $47–$127 after Steam's cut $86–$195 before Steam's cut	$0.99	6 reviews 6 user reviews	Puzzle-PlatformerPlatformer
Bearnard 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $19k–$52k after Steam's cut $35k–$80k before Steam's cut	$16.99	166 reviews Very Positive	AdventureTurn-Based Tactics
动绘（Drawing） 2020	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $69–$182 after Steam's cut $125–$280 before Steam's cut	$9.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	CasualStory Rich