How much revenue did AREA 51 - DEFENCE make?

$141–$380 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did AREA 51 - DEFENCE sell?

Q: How many copies did AREA 51 - DEFENCE sell?

518 to 842 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 518–842; $141–$380 after Steam's cut $256–$584 before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (Mixed)

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 AREA 51 - DEFENCE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AREA 51 - DEFENCE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–452k

best case 5.8M (Saints Row: The Third)

Games like AREA 51 - DEFENCE

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–452k copies

≈ $3k–$36k after Steam's cut

from ~528 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Memes (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: Saints Row: The Third at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 385.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Memes (4 of 8) and Satire (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Comedy, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2023, 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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