How much revenue did Jetpack Kiwi make?

$83–$221 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Jetpack Kiwi sell?

Q: How many copies did Jetpack Kiwi 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; $83–$221 after Steam's cut $150–$340 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 Jetpack Kiwi and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Jetpack Kiwi's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 74k–170k

best case 213k (HARD BULLET)

Games like Jetpack Kiwi

A typical game among these

≈ 74k–170k copies

≈ $404k–$830k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (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: HARD BULLET at ≈ 163k–264k copies, ≈ $894k–$2.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 676 reviews in their first month; the range was 63 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Gore, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
HARD BULLET 2020	Est. copies ≈ 163k–264k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $894k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	7k reviews Very Positive	VRGore
UpGun 2021	Est. copies ≈ 125k–203k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerCasual
Instruments of Destruction 2024	Est. copies ≈ 39k–63k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $215k–$577k after Steam's cut $390k–$888k before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	DestructionPhysics
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef 2022	Est. copies ≈ 79k–128k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $433k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $787k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	PvPAdventure
Rollerdrome 2022	Est. copies ≈ 57k–92k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $467k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $850k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ActionSports
Super Time Force Ultra 2014	Est. copies ≈ 54k–88k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $224k–$602k after Steam's cut $407k–$926k before Steam's cut	$14.99	970 reviews Very Positive	Side ScrollerTime Manipulation
Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD 2012	Est. copies ≈ 143k–232k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $314k–$843k after Steam's cut $570k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$7.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceThird-Person Shooter
Bot Vice 2016	Est. copies ≈ 62k–101k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $170k–$458k after Steam's cut $310k–$704k before Steam's cut	$9.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Top-Down ShooterBullet Hell