How much revenue did Escape This make?

$41k–$109k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape This sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape This sell?

30k to 48k copies, based on its 710 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–48k; $41k–$109k after Steam's cut $74k–$168k before Steam's cut; from 710 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 Escape This and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape This's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 578–1k

best case 35k (Ball laB)

Games like Escape This

A typical game among these

≈ 578–1k copies

≈ $831–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~21 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ball laB at ≈ 27k–43k copies, ≈ $7k–$19k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 305.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Precision Platformer (8 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Casual + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 2 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

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Cave Runner 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut	$11.99	50 reviews Mixed	Side ScrollerPrecision Platformer
Ball laB 2018	Est. copies ≈ 27k–43k 43x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before Steam's cut	$0.99	875 reviews Mixed	Side ScrollerPrecision Platformer
Lab BreakOut 2021	Est. copies ≈ 521–846 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut	$9.99	21 reviews Mixed	StrategyPrecision Platformer
Escape Dream 2023	Est. copies ≈ 372–605 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $101–$272 after Steam's cut $184–$419 before Steam's cut	$0.99	15 reviews Positive	AdventurePlatformer
Ball laB II 2023	Est. copies ≈ 843–1k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $693–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$2.99	34 reviews Positive	Side ScrollerPrecision Platformer
Don't Byte Your Tongue 2023	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before Steam's cut	$2.99	20 reviews Positive	Precision Platformer2D Platformer
PEPPERED: an existential platformer 2025	Est. copies ≈ 18k–29k 35x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $73k–$197k after Steam's cut $133k–$304k before Steam's cut	$14.99	718 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichPixel Graphics
Bleb 2025	Est. copies ≈ 422–685 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $579–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut	$4.99	17 reviews Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerPixel Graphics