How much revenue did Newton's Fourth Law make?

$19k–$50k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Newton's Fourth Law sell?

Q: How many copies did Newton's Fourth Law sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 227 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$77k before the cut; from 227 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 Newton's Fourth Law out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Newton's Fourth Law's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 136k–415k

best case 1.0M (Poly Bridge)

Games like Newton's Fourth Law

The middle of these games

≈ 136k–415k copies

≈ $251k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Poly Bridge at ≈ 786k–1.3M copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 708 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 175 to 743.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Physics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Building + Simulation, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2026, and 1 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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