How much revenue did VReken make?

$852–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did VReken sell?

Q: How many copies did VReken sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $852–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122k–293k

best case 643k (Streets of Rage 4)

Games like VReken

A typical game among these

≈ 122k–293k copies

≈ $819k–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Streets of Rage 4 at ≈ 490k–797k copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 538 reviews in their first month; the range was 79 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fighting (8 of 8) and Beat 'em up (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beat 'em up + Fighting, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2021, 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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One Piece Burning Blood 2016	Est. copies ≈ 209k–340k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.8M before Steam's cut	$74.98	5k reviews Mostly Positive	AnimeAction
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Streets of Rage 4 2020	Est. copies ≈ 490k–797k 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut $6.1M–$13.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	20k reviews Very Positive	ActionBeat 'em up
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