How much revenue did Only Climb: Better Together make?

$118k–$316k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Only Climb: Better Together sell?

Q: How many copies did Only Climb: Better Together sell?

86k to 139k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 86k–139k; $118k–$316k after Steam's cut $214k–$487k before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

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 Only Climb: Better Together and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Only Climb: Better Together's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 82k–160k

best case 680k (Neon White)

Games like Only Climb: Better Together

A typical game among these

≈ 82k–160k copies

≈ $287k–$995k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Neon White at ≈ 518k–842k copies, ≈ $3.6M–$9.6M 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 453 reviews in their first month; the range was 155 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (8 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + 3D Platformer, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Fast-Paced + Shooter + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2022, 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 52 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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