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How many copies did Press Any Button sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 95k–155k
$52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$215k before the cut
from 4k 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 Press Any Button out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Press Any Button's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 519k–856k
best case 7.2M (To the Moon)
Games like Press Any Button

The middle of these games

≈ 519k–856k copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: To the Moon at ≈ 5.5M–8.9M copies, ≈ $15.0M–$40.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 621 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Emotional (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Emotional, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + RPGMaker + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 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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