How much revenue did Projectile Dysfunction make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Projectile Dysfunction sell?

Q: How many copies did Projectile Dysfunction sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 50 reviews (Mostly 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 Projectile Dysfunction and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Projectile Dysfunction's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 752k–942k

best case 23.2M (Half-Life 2)

Games like Projectile Dysfunction

A typical game among these

≈ 752k–942k copies

≈ $4.5M–$8.2M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Half-Life 2 at ≈ 17.7M–28.8M copies, ≈ $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 960 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Action + War; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2004 to 2026, and 1 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 79 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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