How much revenue did Cornerpond make?

$56k–$149k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cornerpond sell?

Q: How many copies did Cornerpond sell?

68k to 110k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 68k–110k; $56k–$149k after Steam's cut $101k–$230k before the cut; from 3k 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 Cornerpond out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cornerpond's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 224k–297k

best case 272k (Chillquarium)

Games like Cornerpond

The middle of these games

≈ 224k–297k copies

≈ $914k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Chillquarium at ≈ 207k–337k copies, ≈ $341k–$917k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 175 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 61 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (6 of 8) and Creature Collector (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Creature Collector + Idler, priced around $6.
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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