How much revenue did SokoPenguin make?

$783–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SokoPenguin sell?

Q: How many copies did SokoPenguin sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 77 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $783–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 77 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 SokoPenguin and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SokoPenguin's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38k–111k

best case 935k (Baba Is You)

Games like SokoPenguin

A typical game among these

≈ 38k–111k copies

≈ $86k–$783k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Baba Is You at ≈ 712k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 197 reviews in their first month; the range was 188 to 392.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Programming + Cute; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 79 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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Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 712k–1.2M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
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Wilmot Works It Out 2024	Est. copies ≈ 21k–34k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $86k–$231k after Steam's cut $156k–$355k before Steam's cut	$14.99	839 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualPuzzle
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