How much revenue did Super Retro BoxBot make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Super Retro BoxBot sell?

Q: How many copies did Super Retro BoxBot sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 27 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 Super Retro BoxBot and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Super Retro BoxBot's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 75k–251k

best case 935k (Baba Is You)

Games like Super Retro BoxBot

A typical game among these

≈ 75k–251k copies

≈ $388k–$1.9M 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: Baba Is You at ≈ 712k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 392 reviews in their first month; the range was 310 to 897.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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A Monster's Expedition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 44k–71k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $241k–$648k after Steam's cut $438k–$997k before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleOpen World
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Hexologic 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42k–67k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $57k–$153k after Steam's cut $104k–$236k before Steam's cut	$4.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	LogicPuzzle
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