How much revenue did DIVINATION make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DIVINATION sell?

Q: How many copies did DIVINATION sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 209 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 209 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 DIVINATION and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DIVINATION's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–669k

best case 4.2M (Helltaker)

Games like DIVINATION

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–669k copies

≈ $3k–$203k after Steam's cut

from ~249 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Visual Novel (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: Helltaker at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 21k 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 Visual Novel (4 of 8) and Cyberpunk (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Demons + Puzzle.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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