How much revenue did Koboo: The Tree Spirit make?

$5k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Koboo: The Tree Spirit sell?

Q: How many copies did Koboo: The Tree Spirit sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 53 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 Koboo: The Tree Spirit and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Koboo: The Tree Spirit's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–552k

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like Koboo: The Tree Spirit

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–552k copies

≈ $302k–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dead Cells at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 573 reviews in their first month; the range was 139 to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Metroidvania, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 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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