How much revenue did 变量 Variables make?

$89k–$239k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 变量 Variables sell?

Q: How many copies did 变量 Variables sell?

29k to 48k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–48k; $89k–$239k after Steam's cut $162k–$368k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 变量 Variables and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 变量 Variables's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 125k–716k

best case 13.1M (7 Days to Die)

Games like 变量 Variables

A typical game among these

≈ 125k–716k copies

≈ $523k–$8.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Building (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.2M copies, ≈ $123.1M–$331.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 679 to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (3 of 8) and Open World Survival Craft (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 of the 8 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 61 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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