How much revenue did Ittle Dew make?

$468k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ittle Dew sell?

Q: How many copies did Ittle Dew sell?

85k to 138k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 85k–138k; $468k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $850k–$1.9M 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 Ittle Dew and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ittle Dew's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–7.5M

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like Ittle Dew

A typical game among these

≈ 4.6M–7.5M copies

≈ $23.6M–$61.4M after Steam's cut

from ~137k 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 Puzzle (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: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.5M–15.4M copies, ≈ $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 46k reviews in their first month; the range was 21k to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (3 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, 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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Stray 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $36.6M–$98.3M after Steam's cut $66.5M–$151.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	179k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsAdventure
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Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.5M–15.4M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut $94.5M–$214.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	227k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
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