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How many copies did BattleCakes sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 347–564
$1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut
from 14 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left BattleCakes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BattleCakes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 51k–192k
best case 271k (Alba: A Wildlife Adventure)
Games like BattleCakes

The middle of these games

≈ 51k–192k copies

≈ $285k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Alba: A Wildlife Adventure at ≈ 206k–335k copies, ≈ $965k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 585 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 56 to 896.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Wholesome + Cozy, priced around $17.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 3 of your 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 61 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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