How much revenue did Geometry Arena make?

$99k–$265k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Geometry Arena sell?

Q: How many copies did Geometry Arena sell?

60k to 97k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 60k–97k; $99k–$265k after Steam's cut $179k–$408k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Geometry Arena and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Geometry Arena's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–54k

best case 122k (Windowkill)

Games like Geometry Arena

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–54k copies

≈ $53k–$175k after Steam's cut

from ~819 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: Windowkill at ≈ 93k–151k copies, ≈ $127k–$342k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 341 reviews in their first month; the range was 158 to 779.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Bullet Hell (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, 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 43 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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