How much revenue did AlCHeMoS make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did AlCHeMoS sell?

Q: How many copies did AlCHeMoS sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 17 reviews (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 AlCHeMoS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AlCHeMoS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 370k–3.2M

best case 22.4M (Tomb Raider Game of the Year)

Games like AlCHeMoS

A typical game among these

≈ 370k–3.2M copies

≈ $6.6M–$50.5M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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: Tomb Raider Game of the Year at ≈ 17.1M–27.8M copies, ≈ $94.0M–$252.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 983 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (7 of 8) and Third Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Third Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 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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Star Wars Outlaws 2024	Est. copies ≈ 317k–516k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $6.1M–$16.4M after Steam's cut $11.1M–$25.3M before Steam's cut	$69.99	13k reviews Mostly Positive	SingleplayerOpen World
EVERSPACE™ 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 326k–529k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.0M after Steam's cut $8.1M–$18.5M before Steam's cut	$49.99	13k reviews Very Positive	ShooterSpace
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