How much revenue did I HATE MY LEGS make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I HATE MY LEGS sell?

Q: How many copies did I HATE MY LEGS sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before the cut; from 18 reviews (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 I HATE MY LEGS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I HATE MY LEGS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–35k

best case 185k (A Difficult Game About Climbing)

Games like I HATE MY LEGS

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–35k copies

≈ $31k–$95k after Steam's cut

from ~456 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Difficult Game About Climbing at ≈ 141k–229k copies, ≈ $386k–$1.0M 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 214 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 117 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and Precision Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Action + Adventure + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
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 43 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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