How much revenue did Super Meat Boy make?

$10.2M–$27.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Super Meat Boy sell?

Q: How many copies did Super Meat Boy sell?

2.5M to 4.0M copies, based on its 39k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.5M–4.0M; $10.2M–$27.4M after Steam's cut $18.5M–$42.1M before the cut; from 39k reviews (Very 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 Super Meat Boy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Super Meat Boy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 500k–632k

best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Super Meat Boy

The middle of these games

≈ 500k–632k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (5 of 8) and Precision Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2023, and none of them 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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Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 35.7M–58.0M 53x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut $89.1M–$202.7M before the cut	$4.99	638k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
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