Celeste vs SANABI: sales & reviews compared

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Celeste

2018 · Action

Maddy Makes Games Inc. · Maddy Makes Games Inc.

Reviews: 131,634
Positive: 97%
Launch price: $19.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 9.9M
Net rev: $112.7M

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SANABI

2023 · Action

WONDER POTION · NEOWIZ

Reviews: 41,618
Positive: 97%
Launch price: $14.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 2.5M
Net rev: $21.4M

Tag overlap

75% shared , 15 shared tags, 5 only on Celeste, 5 only on SANABI.

Only Celeste

Female Protagonist Cute Puzzle-Platformer LGBTQ+Exploration

Shared

Precision Platformer Difficult Pixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackIndiePlatformer 2D PlatformerSingleplayer2DStory Rich AdventureAtmosphericAction Side Scroller Retro

Only SANABI

Cyberpunk Action-Adventure Linear Sci-fi Dystopian

Sales estimates

Paid-game estimates use the same transparent multi-factor Boxleiter method. Free-to-play games never receive paid unit or revenue estimates.

Sales estimate

v1.0

5.9M to 13.8M

units (median: 9.9M)

≈ $67.6M to $157.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

5.9M median 13.8M

+ How is this calculated?

131,634 reviews × NB(75) = 9,872,550 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$20	0
positive_97%	+10
final NB	75

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.5M to 3.5M

units (median: 2.5M)

≈ $12.8M to $29.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.5M median 3.5M

+ How is this calculated?

41,618 reviews × NB(60) = 2,497,080 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$15	0
positive_97%	+10
final NB	60

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

How comparison pages work

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

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