How much revenue did Yet Another Climbing Game make?

$953–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Yet Another Climbing Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Yet Another Climbing Game sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 28 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 Yet Another Climbing Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yet Another Climbing Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–1.6M

best case 2.5M (Risk of Rain (2013))

Games like Yet Another Climbing Game

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–1.6M copies

≈ $6.2M–$9.1M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Risk of Rain (2013) at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies, ≈ $5.2M–$13.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 155 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2025, and 2 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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