How much revenue did Gloomy Eyes VR make?

$14k–$37k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gloomy Eyes VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Gloomy Eyes VR sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 223 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$57k before Steam's cut; from 223 reviews (Very 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 Gloomy Eyes VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gloomy Eyes VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 115k–546k

best case 987k (VTOL VR)

Games like Gloomy Eyes VR

A typical game among these

≈ 115k–546k copies

≈ $1.3M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: VTOL VR at ≈ 752k–1.2M copies, ≈ $6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 984 reviews in their first month; the range was 175 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and VR (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + VR, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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