How much revenue did Megabyte Punch make?

$295k–$792k 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?

71k to 116k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 71k–116k; $295k–$792k after Steam's cut $536k–$1.2M before the cut; from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Megabyte Punch out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Megabyte Punch's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 212k–422k

best case 913k (SteamWorld Dig)

Games like Megabyte Punch

The middle of these games

≈ 212k–422k copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: SteamWorld Dig at ≈ 696k–1.1M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (8 of 8) and Classic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Mining, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared 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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