How much revenue did Kabuto Park make?

$155k–$418k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kabuto Park sell?

Q: How many copies did Kabuto Park sell?

113k to 184k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 113k–184k; $155k–$418k after Steam's cut $283k–$643k before the cut; from 5k 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 Kabuto Park out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kabuto Park's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 74k–274k

best case 1.6M (My Singing Monsters)

Games like Kabuto Park

The middle of these games

≈ 74k–274k copies

≈ $342k–$741k 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Creature Collector (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: My Singing Monsters at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 80 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Creature Collector (4 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Creature Collector + Simulation.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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