How much revenue did Only Climb: Better Together make?

$116k–$313k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Only Climb: Better Together sell?

Q: How many copies did Only Climb: Better Together sell?

85k to 138k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 85k–138k; $116k–$313k after Steam's cut $212k–$481k before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

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 Only Climb: Better Together out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Only Climb: Better Together's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 82k–160k

best case 673k (Neon White)

Games like Only Climb: Better Together

The middle of these games

≈ 82k–160k copies

≈ $285k–$985k 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: Neon White at ≈ 513k–833k copies, ≈ $3.5M–$9.5M 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 453 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 155 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (8 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + 3D Platformer, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Fast-Paced + Shooter + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2022, 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 52 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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