How much revenue did Escape Goat make?

$61k–$164k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape Goat sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape Goat sell?

44k to 72k copies, based on its 703 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 44k–72k; $61k–$164k after Steam's cut $111k–$252k before the cut; from 703 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Escape Goat out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape Goat's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 709k–1.3M

best case 5.1M (LIMBO)

Games like Escape Goat

The middle of these games

≈ 709k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.9M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: LIMBO at ≈ 3.9M–6.4M copies, ≈ $13.4M–$36.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (8 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Dark + Atmospheric + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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 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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