How much revenue did ORX make?

$93k–$251k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ORX sell?

Q: How many copies did ORX sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 684 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $93k–$251k after Steam's cut $170k–$386k before Steam's cut; from 684 reviews (Mixed)

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 ORX and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ORX's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 993–11k

best case 13.1M (7 Days to Die)

Games like ORX

A typical game among these

≈ 993–11k copies

≈ $4k–$48k after Steam's cut

from ~100 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.2M copies, ≈ $123.1M–$331.0M 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 60 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 327k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (5 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Zombies + Multiplayer + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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