How much revenue did Vaporum: Lockdown make?

$39k–$106k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vaporum: Lockdown sell?

Q: How many copies did Vaporum: Lockdown sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 320 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $39k–$106k after Steam's cut $71k–$162k before Steam's cut; from 320 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 Vaporum: Lockdown and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vaporum: Lockdown's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 206k–586k

best case 3.8M (Torchlight II)

Games like Vaporum: Lockdown

A typical game among these

≈ 206k–586k copies

≈ $1.9M–$3.4M 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: Torchlight II at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $15.8M–$42.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Fantasy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Legend of Grimrock 2 2014	Est. copies ≈ 229k–372k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.2M before Steam's cut	$23.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
Vaporum 2017	Est. copies ≈ 37k–60k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $202k–$544k after Steam's cut $368k–$836k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon Crawler CRPG
Low Magic Age 2017	Est. copies ≈ 121k–197k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $500k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $910k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessDungeons & Dragons
Torchlight II 2012	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.8M–$42.6M after Steam's cut $28.8M–$65.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	46k reviews Very Positive	RPGAction RPG
Torchlight 2009	Est. copies ≈ 467k–758k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	RPGAction RPG
Legend of Grimrock 2012	Est. copies ≈ 426k–692k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
Might & Magic X - Legacy 2014	Est. copies ≈ 192k–312k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	3k reviews Mixed	RPGTurn-Based
Full Gear 2023	Est. copies ≈ 546–887 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $749–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$4.99	22 reviews Positive	SteampunkHack and Slash