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How many copies did Pixel Trouble sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 397–645
$545–$1k after Steam's cut $991–$2k before the cut
from 16 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Pixel Trouble out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Trouble's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–10k
best case 13k (Symphonia)
Games like Pixel Trouble

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–10k copies

≈ $29k–$53k after Steam's cut

from ~211 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Symphonia at ≈ 10k–16k copies, ≈ $53k–$142k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 89 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 30 to 142.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Collectathon (7 of 8) and 2D Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 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 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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