How much revenue did Super Space Pug make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Super Space Pug sell?

Q: How many copies did Super Space Pug sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 324 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$31k before Steam's cut; from 324 reviews (Mixed)

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 Super Space Pug and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Super Space Pug's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 354k–702k

best case 2.2M (SUPERHOT)

Games like Super Space Pug

A typical game among these

≈ 354k–702k copies

≈ $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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 FPS (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: SUPERHOT at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $11.7M–$31.4M 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 2k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Bullet Time, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 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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