How much revenue did Bad Pad make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bad Pad sell?

Q: How many copies did Bad Pad sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 49 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 49 reviews (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 Bad Pad and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bad Pad's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–64k

best case 239k (Prince of Persia The Lost Crown)

Games like Bad Pad

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–64k copies

≈ $96k–$629k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Prince of Persia The Lost Crown at ≈ 182k–295k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 205 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Exploration, priced around $30.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 70 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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