How much revenue did Protolife: Other Side make?

$675–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Protolife: Other Side sell?

Q: How many copies did Protolife: Other Side sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $675–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 11 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Protolife: Other Side out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Protolife: Other Side's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 107k–208k

best case 1.2M (Peggle Deluxe)

Games like Protolife: Other Side

The middle of these games

≈ 107k–208k copies

≈ $213k–$446k after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

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

Best case: Peggle Deluxe at ≈ 908k–1.5M copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.3M 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 686 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 234 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Stealth, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2024, and 2 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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