How much revenue did Pesticide Not Required make?

$42k–$113k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pesticide Not Required sell?

Q: How many copies did Pesticide Not Required sell?

24k to 38k copies, based on its 951 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–38k; $42k–$113k after Steam's cut $77k–$174k before Steam's cut; from 951 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 Pesticide Not Required and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pesticide Not Required's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 590k–857k

best case 8.7M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Pesticide Not Required

A typical game among these

≈ 590k–857k copies

≈ $3.6M–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $9. The breakout hits carry Dwarf + PvE + Arena Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 61 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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