How much revenue did Feather make?

$64k–$172k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Feather sell?

Q: How many copies did Feather sell?

23k to 38k copies, based on its 808 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–38k; $64k–$172k after Steam's cut $116k–$264k before Steam's cut; from 808 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 Feather and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Feather's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 699k–2.0M

best case 10.7M (Stellaris)

Games like Feather

A typical game among these

≈ 699k–2.0M copies

≈ $4.6M–$23.3M after Steam's cut

from ~30k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 57 reviews in their first month; the range was 10 to 11k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (8 of 8) and Flight (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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