How much revenue did Flower make?

$284k–$763k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flower sell?

Q: How many copies did Flower sell?

148k to 240k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 148k–240k; $284k–$763k after Steam's cut $516k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Mostly 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 Flower and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Flower's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–23k

best case 40k (PLAYNE : The Meditation Game)

Games like Flower

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–23k copies

≈ $13k–$183k after Steam's cut

from ~191 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: PLAYNE : The Meditation Game at ≈ 30k–49k copies, ≈ $125k–$335k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 41 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 410.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and Nature (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Philosophical + Story Rich, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 3 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 38 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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