How much revenue did Chromosome Evil make?

$37k–$99k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chromosome Evil sell?

Q: How many copies did Chromosome Evil sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 359 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $37k–$99k after Steam's cut $67k–$152k before Steam's cut; from 359 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 Chromosome Evil and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chromosome Evil's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.6M–25.9M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Chromosome Evil

A typical game among these

≈ 8.6M–25.9M copies

≈ $116.8M–$200.4M after Steam's cut

from ~325k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 165k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (6 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2004 to 2022, 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 79 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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