How much revenue did Bad Pad make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bad Pad sell?

Q: How many copies did Bad Pad sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 49 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut; from 49 reviews (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 Bad Pad out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bad Pad's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–63k

best case 229k (Prince of Persia The Lost Crown)

Games like Bad Pad

The middle of these games

≈ 26k–63k copies

≈ $96k–$619k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Prince of Persia The Lost Crown at ≈ 175k–284k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 205 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Exploration, priced around $30.
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 70 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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