How much revenue did DOG'S DONUTS make?

$489–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DOG'S DONUTS sell?

Q: How many copies did DOG'S DONUTS sell?

893 to 1k copies, based on its 36 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 893–1k; $489–$1k after Steam's cut $889–$2k before the cut; from 36 reviews (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 DOG'S DONUTS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DOG'S DONUTS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–12.0M

best case 26.7M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like DOG'S DONUTS

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–12.0M copies

≈ $14.9M–$51.1M after Steam's cut

from ~136k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.3M–33.0M copies, ≈ $139.6M–$375.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 31 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 38k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Physics (8 of 8) and Destruction (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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