How much revenue did Squirrel Stapler make?

$130k–$348k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Squirrel Stapler sell?

Q: How many copies did Squirrel Stapler sell?

59k to 96k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 59k–96k; $130k–$348k after Steam's cut $236k–$536k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Squirrel Stapler and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Squirrel Stapler's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.7M–7.8M

best case 10.6M (Hunt: Showdown 1896)

Games like Squirrel Stapler

A typical game among these

≈ 3.7M–7.8M copies

≈ $39.6M–$60.2M after Steam's cut

from ~112k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hunt: Showdown 1896 at ≈ 8.0M–13.1M copies, ≈ $66.3M–$178.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 144 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 45k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (5 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Extraction Shooter, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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 Isle 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.6M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $32.6M–$87.7M after Steam's cut $59.3M–$134.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	122k reviews Very Positive	DinosaursSurvival
Hunt: Showdown 1896 2019	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–13.1M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $66.3M–$178.3M after Steam's cut $120.6M–$274.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	279k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldExtraction Shooter
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