How much revenue did Bug & Seek make?

$27k–$74k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bug & Seek sell?

Q: How many copies did Bug & Seek sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 269 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $27k–$74k after Steam's cut $50k–$114k before Steam's cut; from 269 reviews (Very 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 Bug & Seek and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bug & Seek's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122k–223k

best case 548k (Spirit City: Lofi Sessions)

Games like Bug & Seek

A typical game among these

≈ 122k–223k copies

≈ $149k–$874k after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Spirit City: Lofi Sessions at ≈ 418k–679k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 702 reviews in their first month; the range was 155 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Creature Collector (7 of 8) and Cozy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cozy + Utilities, priced around $12.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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