How much revenue did Gato Roboto make?

$332k–$892k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gato Roboto sell?

Q: How many copies did Gato Roboto sell?

151k to 245k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 151k–245k; $332k–$892k after Steam's cut $603k–$1.4M before the cut; from 5k 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 Gato Roboto out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gato Roboto's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 822–16k

best case 1.5M (Nine Sols)

Games like Gato Roboto

The middle of these games

≈ 822–16k copies

≈ $887–$50k after Steam's cut

from ~31 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Nine Sols at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.2M–$24.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 6k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $30.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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