How much revenue did ANIMAL WELL make?

$4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ANIMAL WELL sell?

Q: How many copies did ANIMAL WELL sell?

608k to 989k copies, based on its 25k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 608k–989k; $4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.3M before the cut; from 25k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 ANIMAL WELL out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ANIMAL WELL's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 973k–1.4M

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like ANIMAL WELL

The middle of these games

≈ 973k–1.4M copies

≈ $6.1M–$9.2M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Exploration (4 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: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.0M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.4M–$149.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Souls-like, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Atmospheric + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.2M 9.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $55.4M–$149.0M after Steam's cut $100.7M–$229.2M before the cut	$39.99	175k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureSouls-like
INSIDE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.1M 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.6M–$58.2M after Steam's cut $39.4M–$89.5M before the cut	$24.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2.5DPuzzle-Platformer
GRIS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 5.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before the cut	$14.99	96k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulAtmospheric
TUNIC 2022	Est. copies ≈ 457k–743k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.1M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.6M before the cut	$29.99	18k reviews Very Positive	ExplorationPuzzle
Ori and the Will of the Wisps 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M 8.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.9M–$80.3M after Steam's cut $54.3M–$123.5M before the cut	$29.99	146k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulMetroidvania
FEZ 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.7M before the cut	$9.99	16k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerIndie
Ori and the Blind Forest 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackAtmospheric
Antichamber 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.5M before the cut	$19.99	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person