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How many copies did Going Under sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 104k–168k
$711k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut
from 4k 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 Going Under and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Going Under's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–6.4M
best case 33.8M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)
Games like Going Under

A typical game among these

≈ 3.9M–6.4M copies

≈ $25.2M–$59.3M after Steam's cut

from ~114k 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: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.8M–41.9M copies, ≈ $106.2M–$285.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 86k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Rogue-like (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 to 2025, 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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