How much revenue did Please, Don’t Touch Anything make?

$375k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Please, Don’t Touch Anything sell?

Q: How many copies did Please, Don’t Touch Anything sell?

273k to 444k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273k–444k; $375k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $682k–$1.6M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Please, Don’t Touch Anything and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Please, Don’t Touch Anything's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 966k–2.0M

best case 6.7M (Papers, Please)

Games like Please, Don’t Touch Anything

A typical game among these

≈ 966k–2.0M copies

≈ $5.1M–$12.3M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Puzzle (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Papers, Please at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $14.0M–$37.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 53 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (4 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Political + Simulation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2021, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Papers, Please 2013	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.3M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $14.0M–$37.6M after Steam's cut $25.5M–$57.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	81k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndiePolitical
PICO PARK 2021	Est. copies ≈ 744k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before Steam's cut	$4.99	30k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerOnline Co-Op
Unpacking 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's cut $10.2M–$23.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	41k reviews Very Positive	RelaxingCute
Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 712k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension 2020	Est. copies ≈ 648k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before Steam's cut	$12.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndieAdventure
OneShot 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$30.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	65k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichPixel Graphics
CARRION 2020	Est. copies ≈ 895k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	Villain ProtagonistPixel Graphics
The Escapists 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.4M–$17.2M after Steam's cut $11.6M–$26.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerStrategy