How much revenue did Megabyte Punch make?

$295k–$793k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Megabyte Punch sell?

Q: How many copies did Megabyte Punch sell?

72k to 116k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 72k–116k; $295k–$793k after Steam's cut $536k–$1.2M 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 Megabyte Punch and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Megabyte Punch's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 216k–423k

best case 916k (SteamWorld Dig)

Games like Megabyte Punch

A typical game among these

≈ 216k–423k copies

≈ $1.7M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: SteamWorld Dig at ≈ 698k–1.1M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (8 of 8) and Classic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Mining, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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