How many copies did Don't Kill the Cow sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 118 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Don't Kill the Cow make?

Don't Kill the Cow is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Don't Kill the Cow?

Estimated owners: ≈ 3k–6k; from 118 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 Don't Kill the Cow out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Don't Kill the Cow's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–209k

best case 5.4M (South Park™: The Stick of Truth™)

Games like Don't Kill the Cow

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–209k copies

≈ $6k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~601 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Platformer (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $33.9M–$91.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 471 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (4 of 8) and 2D Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Turn-Based, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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