How much revenue did PlayClaw 5 - Game Recording and Streaming make?

$68k–$183k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PlayClaw 5 - Game Recording and Streaming sell?

Q: How many copies did PlayClaw 5 - Game Recording and Streaming sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 392 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; $68k–$183k after Steam's cut $124k–$282k before Steam's cut; from 392 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 PlayClaw 5 - Game Recording and Streaming and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PlayClaw 5 - Game Recording and Streaming's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20k–30k

best case 544k (ShareX)

Games like PlayClaw 5 - Game Recording and Streaming

A typical game among these

≈ 20k–30k copies

≈ $238k–$377k after Steam's cut

from ~674 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 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ShareX at ≈ 415k–674k copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Audio Production (8 of 8) and Utilities (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Video Production + Audio Production, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Software + Web Publishing; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2020, 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 70 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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