How much revenue did Bottle Can Float make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bottle Can Float sell?

Q: How many copies did Bottle Can Float sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 133 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before the cut; from 133 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 Bottle Can Float out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bottle Can Float's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–298k

best case 482k (Rusty's Retirement)

Games like Bottle Can Float

The middle of these games

≈ 66k–298k copies

≈ $158k–$598k 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rusty's Retirement at ≈ 367k–597k copies, ≈ $706k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 854 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (7 of 8) and Clicker (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Farming Sim, priced around $7.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 70 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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