How much revenue did AbsentedAge: Squarebound make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did AbsentedAge: Squarebound sell?

Q: How many copies did AbsentedAge: Squarebound sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 67 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut; from 67 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 AbsentedAge: Squarebound and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AbsentedAge: Squarebound's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 156k–581k

best case 980k (Moonlighter)

Games like AbsentedAge: Squarebound

A typical game among these

≈ 156k–581k copies

≈ $836k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-lite (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Moonlighter at ≈ 747k–1.2M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 843 reviews in their first month; the range was 273 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (4 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hack and Slash + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 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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