How much revenue did Emergency Cleanup Co. make?

$43k–$116k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Emergency Cleanup Co. sell?

Q: How many copies did Emergency Cleanup Co. sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 487 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $43k–$116k after Steam's cut $78k–$178k before the cut; from 487 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 Emergency Cleanup Co. out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Emergency Cleanup Co.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–3.8M

best case 5.3M (DAVE THE DIVER)

Games like Emergency Cleanup Co.

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–3.8M copies

≈ $15.7M–$24.4M after Steam's cut

from ~66k 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: DAVE THE DIVER at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $22.0M–$59.2M 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 35k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 24k to 43k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Exploration, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry RPG + Pixel Graphics + Casual; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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