How much revenue did Yooka-Laylee make?

$1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Yooka-Laylee sell?

Q: How many copies did Yooka-Laylee sell?

186k to 302k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 186k–302k; $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before the cut; from 5k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Yooka-Laylee out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yooka-Laylee's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 346k–718k

best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)

Games like Yooka-Laylee

The middle of these games

≈ 346k–718k copies

≈ $2.9M–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.2M–$40.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (5 of 8) and Classic (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Cute + Great Soundtrack + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, 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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