How much revenue did Directive Nine make?

Directive Nine is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Directive Nine sell?

Q: How many copies did Directive Nine sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; from 22 reviews (Mixed)

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 Directive Nine and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Directive Nine's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–85k

best case 519k (EVERSPACE™)

Games like Directive Nine

A typical game among these

≈ 37k–85k copies

≈ $300k–$605k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: EVERSPACE™ at ≈ 395k–642k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M 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 641 reviews in their first month; the range was 128 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (5 of 8) and VR (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action Roguelike, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Space + Sci-fi + Space Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
EVERSPACE™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 395k–642k 9.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$9.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceAction Roguelike
Sublevel Zero Redux 2015	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $106k–$286k after Steam's cut $193k–$440k before Steam's cut	$14.99	529 reviews Very Positive	IndieAction
Hellsweeper VR 2023	Est. copies ≈ 15k–25k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $85k–$227k after Steam's cut $154k–$350k before Steam's cut	$19.99	620 reviews Very Positive	Hack and SlashAction Roguelike
COMPOUND 2022	Est. copies ≈ 53k–86k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $292k–$786k after Steam's cut $531k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionRogue-lite
The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition 2023	Est. copies ≈ 32k–52k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $218k–$587k after Steam's cut $397k–$904k before Steam's cut	$24.99	1k reviews Very Positive	VRAction
Receiver 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 76k–124k 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $419k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $763k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	FPS Simulation
Receiver 2013	Est. copies ≈ 265k–430k 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $363k–$977k after Steam's cut $661k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	Simulation FPS
In Death 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30k–49k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $249k–$670k after Steam's cut $453k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	994 reviews Very Positive	VRAction