How much revenue did POLE make?

$40k–$109k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did POLE sell?

Q: How many copies did POLE sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 396 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $40k–$109k after Steam's cut $74k–$167k before the cut; from 396 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 POLE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including POLE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–192k

best case 502k (SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS)

Games like POLE

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–192k copies

≈ $47k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS at ≈ 383k–622k copies, ≈ $5.3M–$14.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 344 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and 3D Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Platformer, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 3 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 61 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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Rad Rodgers - Radical Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$138k before the cut	$19.99	199 reviews Mixed	Side Scroller2D Platformer
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