How much revenue did Downwell make?

$346k–$929k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Downwell sell?

Q: How many copies did Downwell sell?

420k to 683k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 420k–683k; $346k–$929k after Steam's cut $628k–$1.4M before the cut; from 9k 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 Downwell out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Downwell's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–12k

best case 1.2M (BlazBlue Entropy Effect)

Games like Downwell

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–12k copies

≈ $7k–$45k after Steam's cut

from ~171 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: BlazBlue Entropy Effect at ≈ 898k–1.5M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.3M 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 152 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Action-Adventure, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Action-Adventure + Post-apocalyptic + Replay Value; 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 52 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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