How much revenue did Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release) make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release) sell?

Q: How many copies did Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release) sell?

6k to 11k copies, based on its 261 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–11k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $6k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 261 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 Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–190k

best case 352k (ALTF4)

Games like Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release)

A typical game among these

≈ 64k–190k copies

≈ $221k–$676k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: ALTF4 at ≈ 268k–435k copies, ≈ $220k–$592k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 550 reviews in their first month; the range was 148 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (6 of 8) and Arcade (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Runner + Physics, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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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