How much revenue did Feed the Cups make?

$707k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Feed the Cups sell?

Q: How many copies did Feed the Cups sell?

161k to 261k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 161k–261k; $707k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut; from 6k reviews (Mostly 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 Feed the Cups out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Feed the Cups's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–3.6M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Feed the Cups

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–3.6M copies

≈ $8.6M–$34.4M after Steam's cut

from ~57k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M 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 26k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Mature + Utilities + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 1 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 43 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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