How much revenue did City Climber make?

$22k–$58k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did City Climber sell?

Q: How many copies did City Climber sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 457 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $22k–$58k after Steam's cut $39k–$89k before Steam's cut; from 457 reviews (Mostly 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 City Climber and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including City Climber's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–139k

best case 3.7M (Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy)

Games like City Climber

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–139k copies

≈ $22k–$860k after Steam's cut

from ~532 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 62 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Physics, priced around $8.
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 43 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 155x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut $11.4M–$25.8M before Steam's cut	$7.99	83k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult
A Difficult Game About Climbing 2024	Est. copies ≈ 141k–230k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $388k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $706k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult
She Fell Off 2023	Est. copies ≈ 818–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	33 reviews Mostly Negative	3D PlatformerPrecision Platformer
The Game of Sisyphus 2024	Est. copies ≈ 21k–35k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $41k–$111k after Steam's cut $75k–$171k before Steam's cut	$6.99	866 reviews Mostly Positive	DifficultAction
Ropebound 2025	Est. copies ≈ 546–887 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $749–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$4.99	22 reviews Positive	AdventurePsychological Horror
WHITE CHOCOLATE 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before Steam's cut	$3.99	92 reviews Very Positive	Online Co-Op3D Platformer
Peaks of Yore 2023	Est. copies ≈ 94k–153k 7.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $492k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $895k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$18.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DifficultPhysics
Just Ski+ 2018	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	198 reviews Very Positive	DifficultFunny