How much revenue did Pal Up! make?

$625–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pal Up! sell?

Q: How many copies did Pal Up! sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $625–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 23 reviews (Mostly 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 Pal Up! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pal Up!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 107k–599k

best case 4.1M (Split Fiction)

Games like Pal Up!

A typical game among these

≈ 107k–599k copies

≈ $1.8M–$11.3M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Split Fiction at ≈ 3.2M–5.1M copies, ≈ $43.4M–$116.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 173 to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (6 of 8) and Action-Adventure (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Female Protagonist, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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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