How much revenue did Doomsday Hunters make?

$86k–$232k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Doomsday Hunters sell?

Q: How many copies did Doomsday Hunters sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 790 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $86k–$232k after Steam's cut $157k–$356k before Steam's cut; from 790 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 Doomsday Hunters and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Doomsday Hunters's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122k–264k

best case 586k (UBERMOSH)

Games like Doomsday Hunters

A typical game among these

≈ 122k–264k copies

≈ $471k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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 Arcade (4 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: UBERMOSH at ≈ 446k–726k copies, ≈ $613k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (4 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Arcade, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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