How much revenue did Pengun make?

$408–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pengun sell?

Q: How many copies did Pengun sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before the cut; from 20 reviews (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 Pengun out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pengun's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 22.1M–100.3M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Pengun

The middle of these games

≈ 22.1M–100.3M copies

≈ $93.3M–$245.7M after Steam's cut

from ~788k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (5 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2021, 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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