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How many copies did Self Shot sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–5k
$2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut
from 97 reviews (Mostly 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 Self Shot out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Self Shot's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 45.4M–101.4M
best case 816.1M (Counter-Strike 2)
Games like Self Shot

The middle of these games

≈ 45.4M–101.4M copies

≈ $277.3M–$538.6M after Steam's cut

from ~1.1M reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Counter-Strike 2 at ≈ 621.8M–1010.5M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Competitive + Team-Based + e-sports; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2007 to 2020, 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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