How much revenue did INDIKA make?

$1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did INDIKA sell?

Q: How many copies did INDIKA sell?

234k to 381k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 234k–381k; $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.7M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left INDIKA out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including INDIKA's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–4.3M

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like INDIKA

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–4.3M copies

≈ $7.1M–$23.4M after Steam's cut

from ~49k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10k to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 2 of your 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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