How much revenue did stikir make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did stikir sell?

Q: How many copies did stikir sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 305 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before the cut; from 305 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 stikir out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including stikir's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 685k–1.6M

best case 2.1M (Chained Together)

Games like stikir

The middle of these games

≈ 685k–1.6M copies

≈ $4.0M–$15.9M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

All 5 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (2 of 5), 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: Chained Together at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (2 of 5) and Co-op (2 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2024, and 2 of your 5 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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Chained Together 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.9M before the cut	$4.99	63k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAdventure
Psychonauts 2006	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$9.0M after Steam's cut $6.1M–$13.8M before the cut	$9.99	19k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerComedy
Bodycam 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $10.5M–$28.3M after Steam's cut $19.2M–$43.6M before the cut	$33.32	46k reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessFPS
Ghostwire: Tokyo 2022	Est. copies ≈ 522k–848k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.6M–$23.1M after Steam's cut $15.6M–$35.6M before the cut	$59.99	21k reviews Very Positive	SingleplayerSupernatural
Everhood 2021	Est. copies ≈ 348k–565k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $956k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$4.0M before the cut	$9.99	14k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackMusic