How much revenue did Flower Challenge make?

$50k–$136k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flower Challenge sell?

Q: How many copies did Flower Challenge sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $50k–$136k after Steam's cut $92k–$209k before the cut; from 37 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65k–166k

best case 352k (ALTF4)

Games like Flower Challenge

The middle of these games

≈ 65k–166k copies

≈ $308k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (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: ALTF4 at ≈ 268k–435k copies, ≈ $220k–$592k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 54 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (4 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Runner + Physics, priced around $3.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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 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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