How much revenue did Flutter Away make?

$11k–$29k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flutter Away sell?

Q: How many copies did Flutter Away sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 121 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before the cut; from 121 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 Flutter Away out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Flutter Away's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20k–92k

best case 147k (A Castle Full of Cats)

Games like Flutter Away

The middle of these games

≈ 20k–92k copies

≈ $11k–$183k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

Best case: A Castle Full of Cats at ≈ 112k–182k copies, ≈ $123k–$330k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 197 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 807.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hidden Object (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Hidden Object, priced around $4.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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