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How many copies did Teleportals. I swear it's a nice game sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 10k–16k
$3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut
from 321 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 Teleportals. I swear it's a nice game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Teleportals. I swear it's a nice game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 354k–1000k
best case 1.5M (DDNet)
Games like Teleportals. I swear it's a nice game

A typical game among these

≈ 354k–1000k copies

≈ $2.1M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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.

Best case: DDNet at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 454 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Precision Platformer.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2009 to 2024, and 1 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 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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