How much revenue did Afterthought make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Afterthought sell?

Q: How many copies did Afterthought 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; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k 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 Afterthought and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Afterthought's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 863–1k

best case 38k (BZZZT)

Games like Afterthought

A typical game among these

≈ 863–1k copies

≈ $573–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~27 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: BZZZT at ≈ 29k–48k copies, ≈ $97k–$260k 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 15 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 263.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Precision Platformer (7 of 8) and 2D Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Score Attack, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Soundtrack + Time Attack + Score Attack; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 38 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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