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How many copies did A Time Paradox sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$409–$1k after Steam's cut $743–$2k 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 A Time Paradox and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Time Paradox's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 261–11k
best case 16.5M (Portal)
Games like A Time Paradox

A typical game among these

≈ 261–11k copies

≈ $2k–$49k after Steam's cut

from ~43 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Portal at ≈ 12.6M–20.5M copies, ≈ $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like
The games that made it here had under 190 reviews in their first month.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Sci-fi (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Comedy + Puzzle-Platformer + 3D Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2007 to 2025, and 3 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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