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How many copies did PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+ sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 521k–847k
$1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before Steam's cut
from 8k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 588k–914k
best case 1.3M (Sonic Mania)
Games like PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+

A typical game among these

≈ 588k–914k copies

≈ $4.1M–$8.2M 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Sonic Mania at ≈ 995k–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Classic (5 of 8) and Arcade (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer + Classic, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2010 to 2022, 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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