How much revenue did Meadowland make?

$0 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Meadowland sell?

Q: How many copies did Meadowland sell?

0 copies, based on its 0 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Too new to estimate: Games in its genre land ≈ 1.4M–4.1M That is what its genre does, not a prediction for this game.; No reviews yet, so there is nothing to estimate from. That is not the same as selling nothing.

Does this actually work?

We left Meadowland out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Meadowland's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–4.1M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Meadowland

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–4.1M copies

≈ $8.4M–$39.7M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (7 of 8) and Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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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