How much revenue did Insurmountable make?

$167k–$450k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Insurmountable sell?

Q: How many copies did Insurmountable sell?

24k to 40k copies, based on its 982 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–40k; $167k–$450k after Steam's cut $304k–$692k before Steam's cut; from 982 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 Insurmountable and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Insurmountable's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–55k

best case 1.2M (Loop Hero)

Games like Insurmountable

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–55k copies

≈ $62k–$338k after Steam's cut

from ~653 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Loop Hero at ≈ 907k–1.5M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$10.1M 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 410 reviews in their first month; the range was 140 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical + Rogue-like, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Deckbuilding + Choices Matter + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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