How much revenue did Figment make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Figment sell?

Q: How many copies did Figment sell?

196k to 319k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 196k–319k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M 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 Figment and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Figment's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 416k–1.3M

best case 1.7M (Machinarium)

Games like Figment

A typical game among these

≈ 416k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.4M–$9.9M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Machinarium at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $7.2M–$19.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 183 reviews in their first month; the range was 182 to 447.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Hand-drawn (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Puzzle, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2022, 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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