How much revenue did Cuphead make?

$41.9M–$112.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cuphead sell?

Q: How many copies did Cuphead sell?

7.6M to 12.4M copies, based on its 222k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7.6M–12.4M; $41.9M–$112.7M after Steam's cut $76.2M–$173.4M before Steam's cut; from 222k 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 Cuphead and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cuphead's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 96k–327k

best case 955k (Iron Snout)

Games like Cuphead

A typical game among these

≈ 96k–327k copies

≈ $595k–$1.4M 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (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: Iron Snout at ≈ 727k–1.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 538 reviews in their first month; the range was 48 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and Beat 'em up (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Fighter + Fighting.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Battletoads 2020	Est. copies ≈ 60k–97k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $327k–$880k after Steam's cut $595k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mixed	ActionAdventure
Super Bunny Man 2023	Est. copies ≈ 309k–502k 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	12k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerSandbox
Shank 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 230k–373k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $631k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	4k reviews Very Positive	ActionBeat 'em up
Hunger Dungeon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 94k–153k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayPixel Graphics
We Need To Go Deeper 2019	Est. copies ≈ 174k–283k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $766k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$15.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Co-op2D
Mineirinho Director's Cut 2020	Est. copies ≈ 57k–93k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$64k before Steam's cut	$0.99	2k reviews Mixed	AnimeAction
Iron Snout 2016	Est. copies ≈ 727k–1.2M 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Free to Play2D Fighter
Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia) 2019	Est. copies ≈ 78k–126k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $321k–$862k after Steam's cut $583k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MusicRhythm