How much revenue did Arcante make?

$613–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Arcante sell?

Q: How many copies did Arcante sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $613–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 15 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 Arcante and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Arcante's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–214k

best case 1.4M (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition)

Games like Arcante

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–214k copies

≈ $127k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 785 reviews in their first month; the range was 114 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party-Based RPG (5 of 8) and Action RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Third Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2024, 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 79 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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