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How many copies did Fish or Chicken Chicken Survivor sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 471–766
$387–$1k after Steam's cut $704–$2k before Steam's cut
from 19 reviews (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 Fish or Chicken Chicken Survivor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fish or Chicken Chicken Survivor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–7.0M
best case 8.7M (Vampire Survivors)
Games like Fish or Chicken Chicken Survivor

A typical game among these

≈ 3.5M–7.0M copies

≈ $21.0M–$39.4M after Steam's cut

from ~141k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-like (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: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 43k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 129k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Rogue-like (4 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2026, and 2 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).

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