How much revenue did Soul Scathe make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Soul Scathe sell?

Q: How many copies did Soul Scathe sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 59 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$33k before Steam's cut; from 59 reviews (Mostly 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 Soul Scathe and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Soul Scathe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–68k

best case 98k (Legendary Tales)

Games like Soul Scathe

A typical game among these

≈ 25k–68k copies

≈ $263k–$979k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Legendary Tales at ≈ 75k–122k copies, ≈ $825k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (7 of 8) and Action RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Swordplay, priced around $40.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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