How much revenue did Pin Zhi make?

$54–$146 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pin Zhi sell?

Q: How many copies did Pin Zhi sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $54–$146 after Steam's cut $99–$224 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Pin Zhi and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pin Zhi's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 86k–235k

best case 653k (Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight)

Games like Pin Zhi

A typical game among these

≈ 86k–235k copies

≈ $559k–$1.8M 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: Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight at ≈ 498k–809k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 454 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Side Scroller (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + 2D Platformer, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, 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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