How much revenue did Plankton make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Plankton sell?

Q: How many copies did Plankton sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 127 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 127 reviews (Mixed)

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 Plankton and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plankton's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–37k

best case 93k (Duck Simulator 2)

Games like Plankton

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–37k copies

≈ $747–$61k after Steam's cut

from ~272 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: Duck Simulator 2 at ≈ 71k–115k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 31 reviews in their first month; the range was 23 to 472.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Surreal.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 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 61 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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Duck Simulator 2 2021	Est. copies ≈ 71k–115k 10x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationAdventure
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