How much revenue did Tools Up! Ultimate Edition make?

$40k–$107k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tools Up! Ultimate Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Tools Up! Ultimate Edition sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 167 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $40k–$107k after Steam's cut $72k–$165k before the cut; from 167 reviews (Mostly 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 Tools Up! Ultimate Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tools Up! Ultimate Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 91k–130k

best case 2.1M (Chained Together)

Games like Tools Up! Ultimate Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 91k–130k copies

≈ $252k–$987k 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.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Chained Together at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 259 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Casual + Puzzle-Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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