How much revenue did Jetscout: Mystery of the Valunians make?

$715–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Jetscout: Mystery of the Valunians sell?

Q: How many copies did Jetscout: Mystery of the Valunians sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $715–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 21 reviews (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 Jetscout: Mystery of the Valunians out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Jetscout: Mystery of the Valunians's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 854–7k

best case 30k (Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX)

Games like Jetscout: Mystery of the Valunians

The middle of these games

≈ 854–7k copies

≈ $2k–$37k after Steam's cut

from ~44 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX at ≈ 23k–38k copies, ≈ $127k–$342k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 26 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 287.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Precision Platformer (8 of 8) and Flight (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + 2D Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 3 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 43 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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