How many copies did Coloring Pixels sell?

265k to 430k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Coloring Pixels make?

Coloring Pixels is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Coloring Pixels?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 265k–430k; from 9k 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 Coloring Pixels and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Coloring Pixels's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 292k–686k

best case 862k (Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game)

Games like Coloring Pixels

A typical game among these

≈ 292k–686k copies

≈ $1.8M–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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 Clicker (2 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: Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game at ≈ 657k–1.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 579 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (2 of 8) and Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Clicker.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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