How much revenue did Swinging-Man make?

$375–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Swinging-Man sell?

Q: How many copies did Swinging-Man sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $375–$1k after Steam's cut $681–$2k before the cut; from 11 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 Swinging-Man out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Swinging-Man's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.6M–10.2M

best case 33.1M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)

Games like Swinging-Man

The middle of these games

≈ 7.6M–10.2M copies

≈ $61.5M–$104.3M after Steam's cut

from ~212k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.2M–41.0M copies, ≈ $104.0M–$279.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 30k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, and 1 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 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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