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How many copies did Rocket Escape sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 273–443
$600–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut
from 11 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 Rocket Escape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rocket Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 76k–569k
best case 1.8M (Trine 2: Complete Story)
Games like Rocket Escape

A typical game among these

≈ 76k–569k copies

≈ $182k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Trine 2: Complete Story at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 596 reviews in their first month; the range was 181 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle-Platformer (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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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