How much revenue did Parcel make?

$11k–$29k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Parcel sell?

Q: How many copies did Parcel sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 160 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before Steam's cut; from 160 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 Parcel and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Parcel's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 74k–136k

best case 935k (Baba Is You)

Games like Parcel

A typical game among these

≈ 74k–136k copies

≈ $212k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Baba Is You at ≈ 712k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 392 reviews in their first month; the range was 385 to 897.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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