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How many copies did 1 Screen Platformer sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 12k–20k
$10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$42k before the cut
from 428 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left 1 Screen Platformer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 1 Screen Platformer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 124k–502k
best case 5.8M (Celeste)
Games like 1 Screen Platformer

The middle of these games

≈ 124k–502k copies

≈ $263k–$911k after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Platformer (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Indie + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 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 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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