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How many copies did Plateman sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 397–645
$982–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k 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 Plateman out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plateman's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–36k
best case 799k (ANIMAL WELL)
Games like Plateman

The middle of these games

≈ 21k–36k copies

≈ $115k–$192k after Steam's cut

from ~676 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: ANIMAL WELL at ≈ 608k–989k copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 338 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 143 to 10k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer + Metroidvania, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 3 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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