How much revenue did Awesomenauts make?

$9.3M–$25.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Awesomenauts sell?

Q: How many copies did Awesomenauts sell?

1.7M to 2.8M copies, based on its 27k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.7M–2.8M; $9.3M–$25.1M after Steam's cut $17.0M–$38.6M before the cut; from 27k 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 Awesomenauts out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Awesomenauts's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.6M–21.1M

best case 15.3M (Fall Guys)

Games like Awesomenauts

The middle of these games

≈ 9.6M–21.1M copies

≈ $105.9M–$142.0M after Steam's cut

from ~367k 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 Co-op (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: Fall Guys at ≈ 11.6M–18.9M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 26 to 144k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Battle Royale.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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