How much revenue did One Dog Story make?

$58k–$156k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did One Dog Story sell?

Q: How many copies did One Dog Story sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 513 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $58k–$156k after Steam's cut $106k–$241k before the cut; from 513 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 One Dog Story out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including One Dog Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–5.5M

best case 10.0M (Cuphead)

Games like One Dog Story

The middle of these games

≈ 3.9M–5.5M copies

≈ $24.6M–$38.1M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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.

Best case: Cuphead at ≈ 7.6M–12.3M copies, ≈ $41.7M–$112.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2019, 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 36 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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