How much revenue did Cascading Failure make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cascading Failure sell?

Q: How many copies did Cascading Failure sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 20 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 291k–594k

best case 7.7M (Heroes & Generals)

Games like Cascading Failure

A typical game among these

≈ 291k–594k copies

≈ $1.3M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

Best case: Heroes & Generals at ≈ 5.9M–9.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (5 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with World War II + FPS.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 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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