How much revenue did CYSMA make?

$96–$257 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CYSMA sell?

Q: How many copies did CYSMA sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $96–$257 after Steam's cut $175–$396 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 CYSMA and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CYSMA's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–11k

best case 2.2M (DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT)

Games like CYSMA

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–11k copies

≈ $13k–$46k after Steam's cut

from ~257 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: DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $18.8M–$50.6M 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 125 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (5 of 8) and Action-Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Open World, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Post-apocalyptic + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 70 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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