How much revenue did X-POINT make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did X-POINT sell?

Q: How many copies did X-POINT sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut; from 41 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 X-POINT out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including X-POINT's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–21k

best case 35k (Vade Retro : Exorcist)

Games like X-POINT

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–21k copies

≈ $18k–$67k after Steam's cut

from ~401 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is RTS (3 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: Vade Retro : Exorcist at ≈ 27k–43k copies, ≈ $51k–$138k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 130 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 564.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Co-op, priced around $7.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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