How many copies did SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated sell?

Q: How many copies did SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated sell?

451k to 733k copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Q: How much revenue did SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated make?

$3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 451k–733k; $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.4M before the cut; from 18k 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 SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 225k–562k

best case 842k (Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy)

Games like SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated

The middle of these games

≈ 225k–562k copies

≈ $588k–$7.3M 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.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy at ≈ 642k–1.0M copies, ≈ $7.1M–$19.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (5 of 8) and 3D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Remake, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2021, 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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