How much revenue did Pesticide Not Required make?

$42k–$113k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pesticide Not Required sell?

Q: How many copies did Pesticide Not Required sell?

23k to 38k copies, based on its 946 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–38k; $42k–$113k after Steam's cut $76k–$173k before the cut; from 946 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 Pesticide Not Required out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pesticide Not Required's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 586k–851k

best case 8.6M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Pesticide Not Required

The middle of these games

≈ 586k–851k copies

≈ $3.5M–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.2M 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 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $9. The breakout hits carry Dwarf + PvE + Arena Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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