How much revenue did Guardians of the Ashes make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Guardians of the Ashes sell?

Q: How many copies did Guardians of the Ashes sell?

11k to 19k copies, based on its 463 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–19k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut; from 463 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 Guardians of the Ashes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Guardians of the Ashes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–6.1M

best case 8.7M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Guardians of the Ashes

A typical game among these

≈ 4.1M–6.1M copies

≈ $9.5M–$19.7M after Steam's cut

from ~76k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 280 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Bullet Hell (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 3 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Enter the Gungeon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut $28.1M–$63.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	90k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Bullet HellAction Roguelike
Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut $16.5M–$37.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	267k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
The Binding of Isaac 2011	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.6M before Steam's cut	$4.99	63k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.8M before Steam's cut	$12.99	49k reviews Very Positive	DwarfAction Roguelike
DUNGEON RAZE 2025	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $17k–$40k before Steam's cut	$2.99	470 reviews Very Positive	RPGAction
Ritual: Spellcasting RPG 2019	Est. copies ≈ 864–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$9.99	30 reviews Positive	IndieMagic
Archaeology - Egypt 2024	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $50k–$113k before Steam's cut	$199.99	20 reviews Mostly Positive	ActionAdventure
Elemental Survivors 2023	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut	$4.99	195 reviews Mostly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell