How much revenue did Climbing Over It with a Spear make?

$899–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Climbing Over It with a Spear sell?

Q: How many copies did Climbing Over It with a Spear sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; $899–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 22 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 Climbing Over It with a Spear and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Climbing Over It with a Spear's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–52k

best case 186k (A Difficult Game About Climbing)

Games like Climbing Over It with a Spear

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–52k copies

≈ $37k–$117k after Steam's cut

from ~492 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

2 of the 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Difficult Game About Climbing at ≈ 141k–230k copies, ≈ $388k–$1.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 171 reviews in their first month; the range was 41 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (7 of 7) and Precision Platformer (7 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Platformer, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 of the 7 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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The Strongest TOFU 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before Steam's cut	$4.99	371 reviews Very Positive	ActionSide Scroller
Knytt Underground 2013	Est. copies ≈ 31k–51k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $60k–$161k after Steam's cut $109k–$247k before Steam's cut	$6.99	492 reviews Very Positive	Precision PlatformerIndie
A Difficult Game About Climbing 2024	Est. copies ≈ 141k–230k 12x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $388k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $706k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult
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