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 the cut; from 165 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 Vision Soft Reset out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Vision Soft Reset's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–12.7M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Vision Soft Reset

The middle of these games

≈ 64k–12.7M copies

≈ $491k–$73.8M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 3 similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.3M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.5M–$213.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (2 of 3) and Metroidvania (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared 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 ≈ 19.3M–31.3M 176x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $79.5M–$213.7M after Steam's cut $144.5M–$328.8M before the cut	$14.99	561k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Timespinner 2018	Est. copies ≈ 97k–157k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $532k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $967k–$2.2M before the 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 the cut	$4.99	11 reviews Positive	ComedyFunny