How much revenue did Inscryption make?

$20.3M–$54.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Inscryption sell?

Q: How many copies did Inscryption sell?

3.7M to 6.0M copies, based on its 149k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3.7M–6.0M; $20.3M–$54.6M after Steam's cut $36.9M–$84.0M before Steam's cut; from 149k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Inscryption and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Inscryption's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.6M

best case 8.3M (Slay the Spire)

Games like Inscryption

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.6M copies

≈ $4.7M–$11.6M after Steam's cut

from ~45k 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: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M copies, ≈ $43.5M–$116.9M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (5 of 8) and Deckbuilding (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Roguelike Deckbuilder + Rogue-like + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 36 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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