How much revenue did Bottle Can Float make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bottle Can Float sell?

Q: How many copies did Bottle Can Float sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 133 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 133 reviews (Very 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 Bottle Can Float and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bottle Can Float's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 67k–300k

best case 484k (Rusty's Retirement)

Games like Bottle Can Float

A typical game among these

≈ 67k–300k copies

≈ $160k–$600k after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Rusty's Retirement at ≈ 369k–600k copies, ≈ $709k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 854 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (7 of 8) and Clicker (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Farming Sim, priced around $7.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 70 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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