How much revenue did POPUCOM make?

$575k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did POPUCOM sell?

Q: How many copies did POPUCOM sell?

105k to 170k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 105k–170k; $575k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.4M before the cut; from 4k 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 POPUCOM out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including POPUCOM's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–9.3M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like POPUCOM

The middle of these games

≈ 4.0M–9.3M copies

≈ $26.8M–$107.2M after Steam's cut

from ~126k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

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 9 to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (6 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 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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