How much revenue did Unknown 9: Awakening make?

$162k–$435k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unknown 9: Awakening sell?

Q: How many copies did Unknown 9: Awakening sell?

24k to 38k copies, based on its 950 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–38k; $162k–$435k after Steam's cut $294k–$670k before Steam's cut; from 950 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Unknown 9: Awakening and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unknown 9: Awakening's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.8M–12.2M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Unknown 9: Awakening

A typical game among these

≈ 6.8M–12.2M copies

≈ $94.2M–$173.8M after Steam's cut

from ~189k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Female Protagonist (4 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 1 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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Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–48.0M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut $147.5M–$335.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	467k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
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