How much revenue did ANIMAL WELL make?

$4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ANIMAL WELL sell?

Q: How many copies did ANIMAL WELL sell?

612k to 995k copies, based on its 25k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 612k–995k; $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.4M before Steam's cut; from 25k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 ANIMAL WELL and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ANIMAL WELL's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 979k–1.4M

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like ANIMAL WELL

A typical game among these

≈ 979k–1.4M copies

≈ $6.1M–$9.2M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

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: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.1M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.6M–$149.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Souls-like, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Atmospheric + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.2M 9.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $55.6M–$149.5M after Steam's cut $101.1M–$230.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	176k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureSouls-like
INSIDE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut $39.7M–$90.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2.5DPuzzle-Platformer
GRIS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 5.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut $22.0M–$50.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	96k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulAtmospheric
TUNIC 2022	Est. copies ≈ 464k–753k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	19k reviews Very Positive	ExplorationPuzzle
Ori and the Will of the Wisps 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M 8.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.0M–$80.6M after Steam's cut $54.5M–$124.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	147k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulMetroidvania
FEZ 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	16k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerIndie
Ori and the Blind Forest 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackAtmospheric
Antichamber 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person