How much revenue did Are you ready for Valve Index? make?

Are you ready for Valve Index? is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Are you ready for Valve Index? sell?

Q: How many copies did Are you ready for Valve Index? sell?

28k to 46k copies, based on its 989 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–46k; from 989 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 Are you ready for Valve Index? and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Are you ready for Valve Index?'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 158k–176k

best case 4.7M (Soundpad)

Games like Are you ready for Valve Index?

A typical game among these

≈ 158k–176k copies

≈ $813k–$1.4M 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Soundpad at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 139 reviews in their first month; the range was 49 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Software (6 of 8) and VR (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Software + Utilities, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Utilities + Shooter + Combat; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 52 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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SteamVR Performance Test 2016	Est. copies ≈ 220k–358k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Mostly Positive	VRBenchmark
SteamVR unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M 17x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	87k reviews Very Positive	VRSoftware
Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	105k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
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