How many copies did Cloud Climber sell?

103k to 167k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Cloud Climber make?

Cloud Climber is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Cloud Climber?

Estimated owners: ≈ 103k–167k; 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 Cloud Climber out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cloud Climber's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 356k–3.2M

best case 27.4M (Fallout 4)

Games like Cloud Climber

The middle of these games

≈ 356k–3.2M copies

≈ $4.0M–$31.9M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: Fallout 4 at ≈ 20.9M–34.0M copies, ≈ $114.9M–$308.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 70 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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