How much revenue did Cloak and Dasher make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cloak and Dasher sell?

Q: How many copies did Cloak and Dasher sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 50 reviews (Very 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 Cloak and Dasher out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cloak and Dasher's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–22k

best case 35k (JellyCar Worlds)

Games like Cloak and Dasher

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–22k copies

≈ $4k–$67k after Steam's cut

from ~241 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: JellyCar Worlds at ≈ 27k–43k copies, ≈ $58k–$157k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 35 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 192.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + 2D Platformer, priced around $8.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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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