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How many copies did Void Encounter sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 25–40
$69–$182 after Steam's cut $125–$280 before Steam's cut
from 1 review (1 user reviews)
Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–3k
best case 17k (Afterinfection)
Games like Void Encounter

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–3k copies

≈ $5k–$53k after Steam's cut

from ~51 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Exploration (3 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: Afterinfection at ≈ 13k–21k copies, ≈ $32k–$87k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 14 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 484.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Exploration (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival, priced around $9.
When they shipped
Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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