How much revenue did Summer Catchers make?

$29k–$79k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Summer Catchers sell?

Q: How many copies did Summer Catchers sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 412 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $29k–$79k after Steam's cut $53k–$121k before Steam's cut; from 412 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 Summer Catchers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Summer Catchers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 419k–1.1M

best case 1.5M (SANABI)

Games like Summer Catchers

A typical game among these

≈ 419k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.0M–$6.7M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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.

Best case: SANABI at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 31 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Drama (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Cyberpunk, priced around $15.
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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