How much revenue did Montaro make?

$138k–$371k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Montaro sell?

Q: How many copies did Montaro sell?

507k to 823k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 507k–823k; $138k–$371k after Steam's cut $251k–$570k before the cut; from 12k 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 Montaro out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Montaro's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–10.7M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Montaro

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–10.7M copies

≈ $8.4M–$85.6M after Steam's cut

from ~129k 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 Anime (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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (4 of 8) and Mature (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. 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 that falls with release age, from about 38 for the most recent game here to about 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M 7.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Doki Doki Literature Club! 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.8M–12.7M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	227k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Visual Novel
DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.6M–$136.0M after Steam's cut $92.0M–$209.3M before the cut	$19.99	221k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.6M–$17.8M after Steam's cut $12.1M–$27.4M before the cut	$14.99	39k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CyberpunkVisual Novel
Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before the cut	$4.99	104k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
HuniePop 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.6M before the cut	$9.99	32k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	NudityMature
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.7M–7.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $51.7M–$139.1M after Steam's cut $94.0M–$213.9M before the cut	$39.99	155k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
100% Orange Juice 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.4M before the cut	$6.99	30k reviews Very Positive	AnimeBoard Game