How much revenue did Flower make?

$282k–$758k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flower sell?

Q: How many copies did Flower sell?

147k to 238k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 147k–238k; $282k–$758k after Steam's cut $512k–$1.2M before the cut; from 5k reviews (Mostly 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 Flower out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Flower's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–23k

best case 40k (PLAYNE : The Meditation Game)

Games like Flower

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–23k copies

≈ $13k–$181k after Steam's cut

from ~190 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: PLAYNE : The Meditation Game at ≈ 30k–49k copies, ≈ $125k–$335k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 41 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 411.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (6 of 8) and Nature (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Philosophical + Story Rich, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 3 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 38 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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