How much revenue did Pixel Ripped 1995 make?

$26k–$70k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pixel Ripped 1995 sell?

Q: How many copies did Pixel Ripped 1995 sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 192 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $48k–$108k before Steam's cut; from 192 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 Pixel Ripped 1995 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Ripped 1995's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 227k–596k

best case 1.6M (Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon)

Games like Pixel Ripped 1995

A typical game among these

≈ 227k–596k copies

≈ $1.2M–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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 Comedy (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: Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon at ≈ 1.3M–2.0M copies, ≈ $5.2M–$13.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (4 of 8) and 1980s (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + 1980s, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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