How much revenue did COCOON make?

$1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did COCOON sell?

Q: How many copies did COCOON sell?

222k to 360k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 222k–360k; $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before the cut; from 9k 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 COCOON out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including COCOON's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 541k–876k

best case 1.1M (Chants of Sennaar)

Games like COCOON

The middle of these games

≈ 541k–876k copies

≈ $3.9M–$5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Chants of Sennaar at ≈ 844k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 487 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Point & Click, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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