How much revenue did Phoenotopia: Awakening make?

$393k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Phoenotopia: Awakening sell?

Q: How many copies did Phoenotopia: Awakening sell?

71k to 116k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 71k–116k; $393k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $714k–$1.6M before the cut; from 3k 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 Phoenotopia: Awakening out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Phoenotopia: Awakening's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 527k–936k

best case 3.8M (Ori and the Blind Forest)

Games like Phoenotopia: Awakening

The middle of these games

≈ 527k–936k copies

≈ $2.7M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

Best case: Ori and the Blind Forest at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Metroidvania.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 79 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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ANIMAL WELL 2024	Est. copies ≈ 608k–989k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.3M before the cut	$24.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MetroidvaniaExploration
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