How much revenue did Code Brown: A Game About Pooping make?

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

How many copies did Code Brown: A Game About Pooping sell?

Q: How many copies did Code Brown: A Game About Pooping sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 230 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$24k before Steam's cut; from 230 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 Code Brown: A Game About Pooping and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Code Brown: A Game About Pooping's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 391–554

best case 128k (SchoolBoy Runaway)

Games like Code Brown: A Game About Pooping

A typical game among these

≈ 391–554 copies

≈ $867–$1k after Steam's cut

from ~12 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: SchoolBoy Runaway at ≈ 97k–158k copies, ≈ $53k–$143k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 233.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Simulation, priced around $6.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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