How much revenue did 12 orbits make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 12 orbits sell?

Q: How many copies did 12 orbits sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 293 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before Steam's cut; from 293 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 12 orbits and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 12 orbits's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 778k–2.7M

best case 2.6M (Party Animals)

Games like 12 orbits

A typical game among these

≈ 778k–2.7M copies

≈ $4.8M–$17.8M after Steam's cut

from ~39k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Party Animals at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party Game (6 of 8) and Party (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Co-op, 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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