How much revenue did UpWakeNing make?

$885–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did UpWakeNing sell?

Q: How many copies did UpWakeNing sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $885–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 26 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 UpWakeNing out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including UpWakeNing's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 537–2k

best case 25k (The Adventures of Mr. Bobley)

Games like UpWakeNing

The middle of these games

≈ 537–2k copies

≈ $2k–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~27 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: The Adventures of Mr. Bobley at ≈ 19k–31k copies, ≈ $11k–$28k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 35.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + 3D Platformer, priced around $2.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 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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