How much revenue did Steam Link make?

Steam Link is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Steam Link sell?

Q: How many copies did Steam Link sell?

360k to 584k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 360k–584k; from 7k reviews (Mostly 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 Steam Link and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steam Link's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 121k–1.8M

best case 4.7M (Soundpad)

Games like Steam Link

A typical game among these

≈ 121k–1.8M copies

≈ $694k–$5.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Soundpad at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 362 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 Software (7 of 8) and Utilities (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Utilities + Audio Production, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, 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 61 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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Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	105k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
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