How much revenue did CESSPOOL make?

$545–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CESSPOOL sell?

Q: How many copies did CESSPOOL sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $545–$1k after Steam's cut $990–$2k before Steam's cut; from 20 reviews (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 CESSPOOL and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CESSPOOL's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–11k

best case 322k (TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children)

Games like CESSPOOL

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–11k copies

≈ $101k–$118k after Steam's cut

from ~280 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children at ≈ 246k–399k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.5M 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 221 reviews in their first month; the range was 144 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tactical RPG (7 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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