How much revenue did Protolife: Other Side make?

$675–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Protolife: Other Side sell?

Q: How many copies did Protolife: Other Side sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $675–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 11 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Protolife: Other Side and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Protolife: Other Side's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 128k–294k

best case 1.2M (Peggle Deluxe)

Games like Protolife: Other Side

A typical game among these

≈ 128k–294k copies

≈ $333k–$831k after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Peggle Deluxe at ≈ 921k–1.5M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 686 reviews in their first month; the range was 233 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + Dark Humor, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2024, and 2 of the 8 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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