How much revenue did City Climber make?

$22k–$58k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did City Climber sell?

Q: How many copies did City Climber sell?

16k to 25k copies, based on its 456 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–25k; $22k–$58k after Steam's cut $39k–$89k before the cut; from 456 reviews (Mostly 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 City Climber out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including City Climber's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–138k

best case 3.7M (Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy)

Games like City Climber

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–138k copies

≈ $22k–$853k after Steam's cut

from ~528 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 62 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Physics, priced around $8.
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 43 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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Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 156x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's cut $11.3M–$25.8M before the cut	$7.99	82k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult
A Difficult Game About Climbing 2024	Est. copies ≈ 141k–229k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $386k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $702k–$1.6M before the cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult
She Fell Off 2023	Est. copies ≈ 744–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	30 reviews Mostly Negative	3D PlatformerPrecision Platformer
The Game of Sisyphus 2024	Est. copies ≈ 21k–35k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $41k–$110k after Steam's cut $74k–$169k before the cut	$6.99	858 reviews Mostly Positive	DifficultAction
Ropebound 2025	Est. copies ≈ 546–887 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $749–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut	$4.99	22 reviews Positive	AdventurePsychological Horror
WHITE CHOCOLATE 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before the cut	$3.99	92 reviews Very Positive	Online Co-Op3D Platformer
Peaks of Yore 2023	Est. copies ≈ 93k–152k 7.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $488k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $888k–$2.0M before the cut	$18.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DifficultPhysics
Just Ski+ 2018	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	198 reviews Very Positive	DifficultFunny