How much revenue did Doodle Date make?

$6k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Doodle Date sell?

Q: How many copies did Doodle Date sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 343 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$24k before Steam's cut; from 343 reviews (Mostly 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 Doodle Date and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Doodle Date's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–8.0M

best case 10.8M (Monster Hunter Wilds)

Games like Doodle Date

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–8.0M copies

≈ $6.7M–$140.4M after Steam's cut

from ~110k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Character Customization (3 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: Monster Hunter Wilds at ≈ 8.2M–13.4M copies, ≈ $90.5M–$243.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 951 reviews in their first month; the range was 205 to 183k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Character Customization (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hunting + Co-op, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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