How much revenue did The Alpha 001 make?

$81–$219 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Alpha 001 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Alpha 001 sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews 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 The Alpha 001 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Alpha 001's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–28k

best case 181k (Path of Kung Fu)

Games like The Alpha 001

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–28k copies

≈ $978–$225k after Steam's cut

from ~178 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Path of Kung Fu at ≈ 138k–224k copies, ≈ $569k–$1.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 102 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (7 of 8) and Spectacle fighter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Martial Arts + Open World, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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Path of Kung Fu 2025	Est. copies ≈ 138k–224k 31x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $569k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	6k reviews Mostly Positive	Martial ArtsRPG
Elder Legacy: Survival 2024	Est. copies ≈ 6k–9k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $29k–$65k before Steam's cut	$9.99	231 reviews Mixed	Early AccessMythology
Stickman Strikes: Conquer Fantasy World 2025	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $58k–$155k after Steam's cut $105k–$238k before Steam's cut	$11.99	704 reviews Mostly Positive	RPGAction
Sink Again 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	124 reviews Mixed	PiratesSailing
BAND OF BROTHERS 2021	Est. copies ≈ 967–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $263–$708 after Steam's cut $479–$1k before Steam's cut	$0.99	39 reviews Mixed	AdventureAction
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