How much revenue did Panic Porcupine make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Panic Porcupine sell?

Q: How many copies did Panic Porcupine sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 81 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before the cut; from 81 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 Panic Porcupine out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Panic Porcupine's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 148k–312k

best case 3.2M (Super Meat Boy)

Games like Panic Porcupine

The middle of these games

≈ 148k–312k copies

≈ $668k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Super Meat Boy at ≈ 2.5M–4.0M copies, ≈ $10.2M–$27.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and Precision Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2022, 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 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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