How much revenue did The Test make?

$273k–$734k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Test sell?

Q: How many copies did The Test sell?

499k to 810k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 499k–810k; $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $496k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 20k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The Test and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Test's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.5M

best case 1.9M (NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD)

Games like The Test

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–1.5M copies

≈ $5.7M–$11.3M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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 Multiple Endings (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: NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD at ≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Multiple Endings (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Anime, priced around $16.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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