How much revenue did Space Sprouts make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Space Sprouts sell?

Q: How many copies did Space Sprouts sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 70 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 70 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 Space Sprouts and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Space Sprouts's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 246k–520k

best case 1.1M (Superliminal)

Games like Space Sprouts

A typical game among these

≈ 246k–520k copies

≈ $1.5M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Superliminal at ≈ 848k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 819 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + First-Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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
Superliminal 2020	Est. copies ≈ 848k–1.4M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
The Entropy Centre 2022	Est. copies ≈ 111k–180k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $609k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
Supraland 2019	Est. copies ≈ 446k–725k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerExploration
Webbed 2021	Est. copies ≈ 380k–617k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	15k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2D PlatformerCute
Amnesia: Rebirth 2020	Est. copies ≈ 232k–377k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	9k reviews Mostly Positive	Action-AdventureFirst-Person
Viewfinder 2023	Est. copies ≈ 330k–536k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerPuzzle
Zup! X 2018	Est. copies ≈ 208k–338k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $114k–$306k after Steam's cut $207k–$471k before Steam's cut	$1.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleCasual
Hidden Deep 2022	Est. copies ≈ 127k–206k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $869k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessShooter