How much revenue did Maneater make?

$7.4M–$19.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Maneater sell?

Q: How many copies did Maneater sell?

669k to 1.1M copies, based on its 27k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 669k–1.1M; $7.4M–$19.8M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.4M before Steam's cut; from 27k 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 Maneater and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Maneater's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 277–180k

best case 25.9M (Borderlands 2)

Games like Maneater

A typical game among these

≈ 277–180k copies

≈ $669–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~67 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Exploration (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Borderlands 2 at ≈ 19.8M–32.1M copies, ≈ $217.3M–$584.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 12k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (4 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Loot + Shooter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 79 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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Borderlands 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 19.8M–32.1M 4701x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $217.3M–$584.2M after Steam's cut $395.1M–$898.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	313k reviews Very Positive	LootShooter
Monkey See, Monkey Doo, Monkey Kiss You 2026	Est. copies ≈ 174–282 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $382–$1k after Steam's cut $695–$2k before Steam's cut	$7.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	Early AccessSimulation
Empires of the Undergrowth 2024	Est. copies ≈ 470k–764k 285x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut $7.1M–$16.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	19k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
GEORGIE-YOLKIE™ Enhanced 2024	Est. copies ≈ 595–967 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$14.99	24 reviews Mixed	Exploration3D Platformer
Aestik 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before Steam's cut	$17.99	109 reviews Mostly Positive	Story Rich Metroidvania
The Carrier and Crows 2024	Est. copies ≈ 74–121 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $244–$660 after Steam's cut $444–$1k before Steam's cut	$11.99	3 reviews 3 user reviews	SingleplayerOpen World
The Cursed Forest 2019	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k 13x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $99k–$266k after Steam's cut $180k–$409k before Steam's cut	$13.99	892 reviews Very Positive	Walking SimulatorAtmospheric
ESCAPELAND 2024	Est. copies ≈ 223–363 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $306–$824 after Steam's cut $556–$1k before Steam's cut	$4.99	9 reviews 9 user reviews	Early AccessAtmospheric