How much revenue did Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release) make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release) sell?

Q: How many copies did Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release) sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 254 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut; from 254 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 Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–190k

best case 352k (ALTF4)

Games like Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (2005 re-release)

The middle of these games

≈ 63k–190k copies

≈ $220k–$670k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Best case: ALTF4 at ≈ 268k–435k copies, ≈ $220k–$592k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 550 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 149 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (6 of 8) and Arcade (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Runner + Physics, priced around $3.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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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