How much revenue did Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® make?

$235k–$633k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® sell?

Q: How many copies did Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® sell?

286k to 465k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 286k–465k; $235k–$633k after Steam's cut $428k–$974k before the cut; from 5k 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 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 347k–1.4M

best case 5.1M (LIMBO)

Games like Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®

The middle of these games

≈ 347k–1.4M copies

≈ $1.6M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: LIMBO at ≈ 3.9M–6.4M copies, ≈ $13.4M–$36.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $12.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2016, 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 52 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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