How much revenue did SAVE THE UNICORN make?

$123–$330 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SAVE THE UNICORN sell?

Q: How many copies did SAVE THE UNICORN sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $123–$330 after Steam's cut $223–$507 before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 SAVE THE UNICORN out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SAVE THE UNICORN's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 472–554

best case 1.0M (ASTLIBRA Revision)

Games like SAVE THE UNICORN

The middle of these games

≈ 472–554 copies

≈ $728–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~16 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: ASTLIBRA Revision at ≈ 784k–1.3M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Side Scroller (7 of 8) and 2D Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Side Scroller, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Action RPG + JRPG + Drama; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Cyber Hunter: Awakening 2021	Est. copies ≈ 397–645 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $545–$1k after Steam's cut $991–$2k before the cut	$4.99	16 reviews Mixed	Spectacle fighterSide Scroller
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