How much revenue did The Swapper make?

$2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Swapper sell?

Q: How many copies did The Swapper sell?

479k to 778k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 479k–778k; $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before the cut; from 8k 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 The Swapper out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including The Swapper's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 159k–1.5M

best case 4.1M (INSIDE)

Games like The Swapper

The middle of these games

≈ 159k–1.5M copies

≈ $1.2M–$13.3M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

3 of your 4 similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: INSIDE at ≈ 3.1M–5.1M copies, ≈ $21.6M–$58.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle-Platformer (3 of 4) and Metroidvania (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $25.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. 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 that falls with release age, from about 36 for the most recent game here to about 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
INSIDE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.1M 7.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.6M–$58.2M after Steam's cut $39.4M–$89.5M before the cut	$24.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2.5DPuzzle-Platformer
Iconoclasts 2018	Est. copies ≈ 153k–248k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $839k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before the cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	IndiePixel Graphics
Recursed 2016	Est. copies ≈ 28k–45k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $61k–$163k after Steam's cut $111k–$251k before the cut	$7.99	665 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndiePuzzle
Supraland 2019	Est. copies ≈ 440k–714k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before the cut	$19.99	15k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerExploration