How much revenue did Climbey make?

$62k–$166k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Climbey sell?

Q: How many copies did Climbey sell?

28k to 46k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–46k; $62k–$166k after Steam's cut $112k–$255k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Climbey and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Climbey's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–10k

best case 1.4M (BONEWORKS)

Games like Climbey

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–10k copies

≈ $15k–$68k after Steam's cut

from ~144 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: BONEWORKS at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $8.7M–$23.3M 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 102 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (8 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Physics, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Great Soundtrack + Physics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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