How much revenue did Puzzles for smart: Underwater Kingdom make?

$468–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Puzzles for smart: Underwater Kingdom sell?

Q: How many copies did Puzzles for smart: Underwater Kingdom sell?

426 to 692 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 426–692; $468–$1k after Steam's cut $850–$2k before the cut; from 14 reviews (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 Puzzles for smart: Underwater Kingdom out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Puzzles for smart: Underwater Kingdom's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 559–1k

best case 1.2M (Feed and Grow: Fish)

Games like Puzzles for smart: Underwater Kingdom

The middle of these games

≈ 559–1k copies

≈ $862–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~24 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Puzzle (4 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: Feed and Grow: Fish at ≈ 899k–1.5M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 45.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (4 of 8) and Underwater (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Hidden Object, priced around $7.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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