How much revenue did Cuphead make?

$41.7M–$112.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cuphead sell?

Q: How many copies did Cuphead sell?

7.6M to 12.3M copies, based on its 220k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7.6M–12.3M; $41.7M–$112.1M after Steam's cut $75.8M–$172.5M before the cut; from 220k 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 Cuphead out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cuphead's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 96k–326k

best case 954k (Iron Snout)

Games like Cuphead

The middle of these games

≈ 96k–326k copies

≈ $592k–$1.3M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Iron Snout at ≈ 727k–1.2M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 538 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 47 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and Beat 'em up (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Fighter + Fighting.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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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Super Bunny Man 2023	Est. copies ≈ 306k–498k 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.2M before the cut	$14.99	12k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerSandbox
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Iron Snout 2016	Est. copies ≈ 727k–1.2M 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Free to Play2D Fighter
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