How much revenue did Puzzles For Clef make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Puzzles For Clef sell?

Q: How many copies did Puzzles For Clef sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 146 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$62k before the cut; from 146 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 Puzzles For Clef out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Puzzles For Clef's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 104k–261k

best case 496k (Webbed)

Games like Puzzles For Clef

The middle of these games

≈ 104k–261k copies

≈ $544k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Webbed at ≈ 378k–615k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 399 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (6 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Physics, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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 52 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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