How much revenue did Across the Obelisk make?

$1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Across the Obelisk sell?

Q: How many copies did Across the Obelisk sell?

326k to 529k copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 326k–529k; $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut; from 13k 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 Across the Obelisk and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Across the Obelisk's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 270k–531k

best case 8.3M (Slay the Spire)

Games like Across the Obelisk

A typical game among these

≈ 270k–531k copies

≈ $2.2M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

Best case: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M copies, ≈ $43.5M–$116.9M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Deckbuilding (8 of 8) and Roguelike Deckbuilder (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Turn-Based + Card Battler + Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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