How much revenue did Flippin Kaktus make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flippin Kaktus sell?

Q: How many copies did Flippin Kaktus sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 14 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–29k

best case 144k (HUNTDOWN)

Games like Flippin Kaktus

The middle of these games

≈ 16k–29k copies

≈ $65k–$138k after Steam's cut

from ~557 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: HUNTDOWN at ≈ 109k–178k copies, ≈ $602k–$1.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 214 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 95 to 471.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (6 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Shooter, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Shooter + Local Co-Op + Cyberpunk; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 79 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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