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How many copies did SNIKS sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 868–1k
$714–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut
from 35 reviews (Positive)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 51k–97k
best case 606k (LYNE)
Games like SNIKS

The middle of these games

≈ 51k–97k copies

≈ $39k–$400k 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.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: LYNE at ≈ 462k–750k copies, ≈ $380k–$1.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 257 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 58 to 404.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Arcade (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $3.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2022, and none of them 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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