How many copies did Coloring Pixels sell?

263k to 427k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Coloring Pixels make?

Coloring Pixels is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Coloring Pixels?

Estimated owners: ≈ 263k–427k; from 9k 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 Coloring Pixels out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Coloring Pixels's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 223k–388k

best case 861k (Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game)

Games like Coloring Pixels

The middle of these games

≈ 223k–388k copies

≈ $3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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 Clicker (2 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: Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game at ≈ 656k–1.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 580 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Clicker (2 of 8) and Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Relaxing + Casual; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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