How much revenue did Quadrilateral Cowboy make?

$232k–$624k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Quadrilateral Cowboy sell?

Q: How many copies did Quadrilateral Cowboy sell?

42k to 69k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 42k–69k; $232k–$624k after Steam's cut $422k–$960k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Quadrilateral Cowboy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Quadrilateral Cowboy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 248k–713k

best case 1.7M (Hacknet)

Games like Quadrilateral Cowboy

A typical game among these

≈ 248k–713k copies

≈ $2.4M–$6.0M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Hacking (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Hacknet at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $3.5M–$9.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 44 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hacking (4 of 8) and Cyberpunk (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hacking + Simulation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 1 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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Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You 2016	Est. copies ≈ 648k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterPolitical Sim
Hacknet 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.4M after Steam's cut $6.4M–$14.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	26k reviews Very Positive	HackingSimulation
Operation: Tango 2021	Est. copies ≈ 222k–360k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpPuzzle
Watch Dogs®: Legion 2023	Est. copies ≈ 314k–510k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $5.2M–$13.9M after Steam's cut $9.4M–$21.4M before Steam's cut	$59.99	13k reviews Mixed	ActionOpen World
Deadlink 2023	Est. copies ≈ 91k–148k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $627k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	4k reviews Very Positive	FPSAction Roguelike
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy 2011	Est. copies ≈ 508k–825k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	8k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkRPG
Shadows of Doubt 2024	Est. copies ≈ 442k–719k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.2M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	18k reviews Very Positive	DetectiveImmersive Sim
Operation: Tango - Friend Pass 2020	Est. copies ≈ 57k–92k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpCo-op Campaign