How much revenue did Monkeys & Typewriters! make?

$408–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monkeys & Typewriters! sell?

Q: How many copies did Monkeys & Typewriters! sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before Steam's cut; from 20 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 Monkeys & Typewriters! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Monkeys & Typewriters!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 749–11k

best case 12.8M (Assetto Corsa)

Games like Monkeys & Typewriters!

A typical game among these

≈ 749–11k copies

≈ $1k–$67k after Steam's cut

from ~104 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Assetto Corsa at ≈ 9.8M–15.9M copies, ≈ $53.8M–$144.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 191 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (5 of 8) and Artificial Intelligence (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Automobile Sim + Multiplayer + VR; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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