How much revenue did Listeria Wars make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Listeria Wars sell?

Q: How many copies did Listeria Wars sell?

818 to 1k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 818–1k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 33 reviews (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 Listeria Wars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Listeria Wars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 464–838

best case 62k (Grim Nights)

Games like Listeria Wars

A typical game among these

≈ 464–838 copies

≈ $741–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~20 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: Grim Nights at ≈ 47k–77k copies, ≈ $39k–$104k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 32.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (6 of 8) and Side Scroller (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Base-Building, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Base-Building + Survival + Colony Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 38 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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