How much revenue did INDUSTRIA make?

$595k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did INDUSTRIA sell?

Q: How many copies did INDUSTRIA sell?

108k to 176k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 108k–176k; $595k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 INDUSTRIA and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including INDUSTRIA's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28.7M–35.8M

best case 37.9M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like INDUSTRIA

A typical game among these

≈ 28.7M–35.8M copies

≈ $64.2M–$585.8M after Steam's cut

from ~764k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 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: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.9M–46.9M copies, ≈ $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 163k reviews in their first month; the range was 35k to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Shooter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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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