How much revenue did Newton's Fourth Law make?

$19k–$50k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Newton's Fourth Law sell?

Q: How many copies did Newton's Fourth Law sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 229 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$77k before Steam's cut; from 229 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 Newton's Fourth Law and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Newton's Fourth Law's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 136k–417k

best case 1.0M (Poly Bridge)

Games like Newton's Fourth Law

A typical game among these

≈ 136k–417k copies

≈ $252k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Poly Bridge at ≈ 788k–1.3M copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 707 reviews in their first month; the range was 175 to 743.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Physics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Building + Simulation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2026, 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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