How many copies did Octodad (Student Edition) sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 146 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Octodad (Student Edition) make?

Octodad (Student Edition) is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Octodad (Student Edition)?

Estimated owners: ≈ 4k–6k; from 146 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 Octodad (Student Edition) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Octodad (Student Edition)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 814–45k

best case 164k (Hello Neighbor Alpha 1)

Games like Octodad (Student Edition)

The middle of these games

≈ 814–45k copies

≈ $75k–$338k after Steam's cut

from ~508 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hello Neighbor Alpha 1 at ≈ 125k–204k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (7 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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