How much revenue did OPERATION SERPENS make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did OPERATION SERPENS sell?

Q: How many copies did OPERATION SERPENS sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 104 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before Steam's cut; from 104 reviews (Very 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 OPERATION SERPENS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including OPERATION SERPENS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–12k

best case 112k (Raw Data)

Games like OPERATION SERPENS

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–12k copies

≈ $25k–$89k after Steam's cut

from ~189 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Raw Data at ≈ 86k–139k copies, ≈ $941k–$2.5M 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 48 reviews in their first month; the range was 30 to 135.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (8 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Shoot 'Em Up, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Shoot 'Em Up + Co-op + Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 2 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 43 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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