How much revenue did Sticky Business make?

$524k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sticky Business sell?

Q: How many copies did Sticky Business sell?

191k to 310k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 191k–310k; $524k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $953k–$2.2M before the cut; from 8k reviews (Very 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 Sticky Business out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sticky Business's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–80k

best case 497k (Wobbledogs)

Games like Sticky Business

The middle of these games

≈ 63k–80k copies

≈ $453k–$686k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Wobbledogs at ≈ 378k–615k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 813 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 406 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Wholesome (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wholesome + Sandbox, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Family Friendly + Cute; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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