How much revenue did Poly Ego make?

$138–$368 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Poly Ego sell?

Q: How many copies did Poly Ego sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $138–$368 after Steam's cut $250–$566 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Poly Ego and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Poly Ego's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 297k–589k

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Poly Ego

A typical game among these

≈ 297k–589k copies

≈ $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle-Platformer (7 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Female Protagonist + First-Person + 3D Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2019, 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 36 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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