How much revenue did Maneater make?

$7.2M–$19.4M 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?

658k 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: ≈ 658k–1.1M; $7.2M–$19.4M after Steam's cut $13.2M–$29.9M before the cut; from 27k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Maneater out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Maneater's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 277–178k

best case 25.9M (Borderlands 2)

Games like Maneater

The middle of these games

≈ 277–178k copies

≈ $669–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~65 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Exploration (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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 ≈ 19.7M–32.1M copies, ≈ $108.5M–$291.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (4 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Loot + Shooter, priced around $20.
The era: 6 of your 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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