How much revenue did Treadnauts make?

$23k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Treadnauts sell?

Q: How many copies did Treadnauts sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 186 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $23k–$63k after Steam's cut $42k–$96k before Steam's cut; from 186 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 Treadnauts and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Treadnauts's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 376k–1.5M

best case 2.6M (Party Animals)

Games like Treadnauts

A typical game among these

≈ 376k–1.5M copies

≈ $2.3M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Party Game (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: Party Animals at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 281 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party Game (4 of 8) and Physics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Co-op, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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Amazing Frog? 2014	Est. copies ≈ 656k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$14.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Early Access4 Player Local
ShellShock Live 2020	Est. copies ≈ 883k–1.4M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	36k reviews Very Positive	TanksMultiplayer
Super Bunny Man 2023	Est. copies ≈ 309k–502k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	12k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerSandbox
Tricky Towers 2016	Est. copies ≈ 687k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	17k reviews Very Positive	Party Game Puzzle
Party Animals 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut $19.7M–$44.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	79k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerFunny
Rubber Bandits 2021	Est. copies ≈ 179k–291k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $491k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $893k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Family FriendlyParty Game
Gang Beasts 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.8M 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.8M–$34.4M after Steam's cut $23.2M–$52.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	68k reviews Very Positive	FunnyPhysics
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