How much revenue did The Swapper make?

$2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Swapper sell?

Q: How many copies did The Swapper sell?

480k to 780k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 480k–780k; $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 The Swapper and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including The Swapper's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 160k–1.5M

best case 4.2M (INSIDE)

Games like The Swapper

A typical game among these

≈ 160k–1.5M copies

≈ $1.2M–$13.5M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

3 of the 4 similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: INSIDE at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle-Platformer (3 of 4) and Metroidvania (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $25.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. 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 that falls with release age, from about 36 for the most recent game here to about 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
INSIDE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M 7.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut $39.7M–$90.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2.5DPuzzle-Platformer
Iconoclasts 2018	Est. copies ≈ 153k–249k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $841k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	IndiePixel Graphics
Recursed 2016	Est. copies ≈ 28k–45k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $62k–$165k after Steam's cut $112k–$254k before Steam's cut	$7.99	673 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndiePuzzle
Supraland 2019	Est. copies ≈ 446k–725k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerExploration