How much revenue did pureya make?

$100k–$270k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did pureya sell?

Q: How many copies did pureya sell?

61k to 99k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 61k–99k; $100k–$270k after Steam's cut $182k–$415k 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 pureya and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including pureya's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–114k

best case 406k (Pixel Strike 3D)

Games like pureya

A typical game among these

≈ 31k–114k copies

≈ $54k–$527k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Minigames (3 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: Pixel Strike 3D at ≈ 310k–503k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 757 reviews in their first month; the range was 56 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Minigames (3 of 8) and Character Customization (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 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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