How much revenue did Squirrel Stapler make?

$128k–$344k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Squirrel Stapler sell?

Q: How many copies did Squirrel Stapler sell?

58k to 95k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–95k; $128k–$344k after Steam's cut $233k–$529k before the cut; from 2k 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 Squirrel Stapler out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Squirrel Stapler's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.6M–7.6M

best case 10.5M (Hunt: Showdown 1896)

Games like Squirrel Stapler

The middle of these games

≈ 3.6M–7.6M copies

≈ $44.9M–$59.1M after Steam's cut

from ~111k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hunt: Showdown 1896 at ≈ 8.0M–13.0M copies, ≈ $87.8M–$236.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 144 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 45k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (5 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Extraction Shooter, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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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