How much revenue did Dad Quest make?

$19k–$52k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dad Quest sell?

Q: How many copies did Dad Quest sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 179 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $19k–$52k after Steam's cut $35k–$80k before Steam's cut; from 179 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 Dad Quest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dad Quest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 592k–2.4M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Dad Quest

A typical game among these

≈ 592k–2.4M copies

≈ $4.4M–$28.9M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (5 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 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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