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How big is Fighting Fiends?

Estimated owners
≈ 2k–3k
from 63 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 Fighting Fiends out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fighting Fiends's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–21k
best case 99k (Boomerang Fu)
Games like Fighting Fiends

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–21k copies

≈ $18k–$123k after Steam's cut

from ~183 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: Boomerang Fu at ≈ 75k–122k copies, ≈ $310k–$834k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 15 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 138.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 4 Player Local (5 of 8) and Fighting (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with 4 Player Local + Party Game, priced around $15.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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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