How much revenue did Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy make?

$6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy sell?

Q: How many copies did Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy sell?

2.8M to 4.6M copies, based on its 83k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.8M–4.6M; $6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut $11.4M–$25.8M before Steam's cut; from 83k 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 Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14.5M–42.4M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

A typical game among these

≈ 14.5M–42.4M copies

≈ $85.4M–$558.3M after Steam's cut

from ~544k 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 Co-op (3 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: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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