How much revenue did Snakebird make?

$118k–$317k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Snakebird sell?

Q: How many copies did Snakebird sell?

61k to 100k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 61k–100k; $118k–$317k after Steam's cut $215k–$488k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Snakebird and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Snakebird's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–4.9M

best case 4.8M (Ori and the Will of the Wisps)

Games like Snakebird

A typical game among these

≈ 4.1M–4.9M copies

≈ $16.7M–$35.6M after Steam's cut

from ~97k 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 Co-op (2 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: Ori and the Will of the Wisps at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $30.0M–$80.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (2 of 8) and Dark (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Metroidvania, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, 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 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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