How much revenue did Umbraclaw make?

$30k–$82k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Umbraclaw sell?

Q: How many copies did Umbraclaw sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 178 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $30k–$82k after Steam's cut $55k–$125k before Steam's cut; from 178 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 Umbraclaw and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Umbraclaw's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 351k–738k

best case 1.8M (Trine 2: Complete Story)

Games like Umbraclaw

A typical game among these

≈ 351k–738k copies

≈ $2.5M–$10.4M 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.

Best case: Trine 2: Complete Story at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (6 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, 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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