How many copies did Virus Blast sell?

719 to 1k copies, based on its 29 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Virus Blast make?

Virus Blast is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Virus Blast?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 719–1k; from 29 reviews (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 Virus Blast and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Virus Blast's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 251k–552k

best case 732k (Dome Keeper)

Games like Virus Blast

A typical game among these

≈ 251k–552k copies

≈ $2.9M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Arcade (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: Dome Keeper at ≈ 558k–906k copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 474 reviews in their first month; the range was 105 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (3 of 8) and Physics (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Post-apocalyptic + Rogue-like, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2026, 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 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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Derail Valley 2019	Est. copies ≈ 283k–460k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$12.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	10k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessTrains
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder 2025	Est. copies ≈ 21k–34k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $68k–$183k after Steam's cut $124k–$282k before Steam's cut	$11.99	834 reviews Mixed	Colony Sim City Builder
Dome Keeper 2022	Est. copies ≈ 558k–906k 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.4M before Steam's cut	$17.99	22k reviews Very Positive	SingleplayerPost-apocalyptic
Dungeon Clawler 2026	Est. copies ≈ 100k–162k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $411k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $748k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessRogue-lite
Exit From 2021	Est. copies ≈ 14k–22k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $37k–$101k after Steam's cut $68k–$155k before Steam's cut	$9.99	549 reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Roundguard 2020	Est. copies ≈ 14k–23k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $79k–$212k after Steam's cut $143k–$326k before Steam's cut	$19.99	578 reviews Very Positive	PinballPhysics
Castle Break 2019	Est. copies ≈ 22k–35k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$122k before Steam's cut	$4.99	749 reviews Very Positive	ActionArcade
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding 2025	Est. copies ≈ 24k–38k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $78k–$209k after Steam's cut $141k–$321k before Steam's cut	$11.99	949 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SingleplayerSkiing