How much revenue did Gato Roboto make?

$333k–$896k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gato Roboto sell?

Q: How many copies did Gato Roboto sell?

152k to 246k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 152k–246k; $333k–$896k after Steam's cut $606k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Gato Roboto and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gato Roboto's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 822–16k

best case 1.5M (Nine Sols)

Games like Gato Roboto

A typical game among these

≈ 822–16k copies

≈ $887–$51k after Steam's cut

from ~31 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Nine Sols at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.4M–$25.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 6k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $30.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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