How much revenue did Boots Versus Plants make?

$223–$599 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Boots Versus Plants sell?

Q: How many copies did Boots Versus Plants sell?

818 to 1k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 818–1k; $223–$599 after Steam's cut $405–$922 before the cut; from 33 reviews (Mixed)

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 Boots Versus Plants out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Boots Versus Plants's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 42.0M–84.7M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like Boots Versus Plants

The middle of these games

≈ 42.0M–84.7M copies

≈ $181.5M–$453.8M after Steam's cut

from ~789k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Moddable (2 of 4), 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: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Moddable (2 of 4) and Open World (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2015, and none of them 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 61 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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Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 79.8M–129.6M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut $398.4M–$906.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
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