How much revenue did PEPPERED: an existential platformer make?

$72k–$193k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PEPPERED: an existential platformer sell?

Q: How many copies did PEPPERED: an existential platformer sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 701 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $72k–$193k after Steam's cut $130k–$296k before the cut; from 701 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 PEPPERED: an existential platformer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PEPPERED: an existential platformer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.9M–10.0M

best case 21.7M (Undertale)

Games like PEPPERED: an existential platformer

The middle of these games

≈ 6.9M–10.0M copies

≈ $53.4M–$96.7M after Steam's cut

from ~261k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Precision Platformer (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Undertale at ≈ 16.5M–26.8M copies, ≈ $45.3M–$121.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 511 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 31 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Precision Platformer (4 of 8) and Story Rich (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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Undertale 2015	Est. copies ≈ 16.5M–26.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $45.3M–$121.9M after Steam's cut $82.4M–$187.6M before the cut	$9.99	338k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackStory Rich
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