How much revenue did Dude, Stop make?

$348k–$935k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dude, Stop sell?

Q: How many copies did Dude, Stop sell?

84k to 137k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 84k–137k; $348k–$935k after Steam's cut $632k–$1.4M before the cut; from 3k 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 Dude, Stop out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dude, Stop's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 906k–1.1M

best case 1.5M (The Escapists 2)

Games like Dude, Stop

The middle of these games

≈ 906k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.9M–$6.3M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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 Puzzle (3 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: The Escapists 2 at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 54 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (3 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Crafting, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 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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