How much revenue did Jet Kave Adventure make?

$14k–$37k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Jet Kave Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Jet Kave Adventure sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 136 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$58k before the cut; from 136 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 Jet Kave Adventure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Jet Kave Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 643k–1.3M

best case 1.9M (Skul: The Hero Slayer)

Games like Jet Kave Adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 643k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.5M–$10.1M after Steam's cut

from ~22k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Metroidvania (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: Skul: The Hero Slayer at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$21.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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