How much revenue did Capoo Pals make?

$30k–$80k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Capoo Pals sell?

Q: How many copies did Capoo Pals sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 439 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$124k before Steam's cut; from 439 reviews (Mostly 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 Capoo Pals and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Capoo Pals's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–127k

best case 158k (Chill Pulse)

Games like Capoo Pals

A typical game among these

≈ 32k–127k copies

≈ $52k–$253k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Chill Pulse at ≈ 120k–195k copies, ≈ $165k–$443k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 516 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (8 of 8) and Utilities (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Utilities + Simulation, priced around $5.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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