How much revenue did Vision Soft Reset make?

$13k–$35k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vision Soft Reset sell?

Q: How many copies did Vision Soft Reset sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 165 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$54k before Steam's cut; from 165 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Vision Soft Reset and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Vision Soft Reset's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–12.8M

best case 25.6M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Vision Soft Reset

A typical game among these

≈ 64k–12.8M copies

≈ $492k–$74.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

2 of the 3 similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.5M–31.6M copies, ≈ $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (2 of 3) and Metroidvania (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.5M–31.6M 177x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut $145.9M–$332.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	566k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Timespinner 2018	Est. copies ≈ 97k–158k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $533k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $970k–$2.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaLGBTQ+
Omnigon 2023	Est. copies ≈ 273–443 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $375–$1k after Steam's cut $681–$2k before Steam's cut	$4.99	11 reviews Positive	ComedyFunny