How much revenue did Alias make?

$83–$221 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alias sell?

Q: How many copies did Alias sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $83–$221 after Steam's cut $150–$340 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 155–3k

best case 18k (Nodes Escape)

Games like Alias

A typical game among these

≈ 155–3k copies

≈ $116–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~17 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Nodes Escape at ≈ 14k–22k copies, ≈ $8k–$20k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 233.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Word Game (8 of 8) and Text-Based (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Word Game + Puzzle, priced around $2.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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Mini Words - minimalist puzzle 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5k–9k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut	$1.99	183 reviews Very Positive	Word GamePuzzle
Inkslinger 2021	Est. copies ≈ 670–1k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $920–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$4.99	27 reviews Positive	AdventureStory Rich
Nodes Escape 2023	Est. copies ≈ 14k–22k 33x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut	$1.99	556 reviews Very Positive	Word GamePuzzle
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