How much revenue did Acolyte make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Acolyte sell?

Q: How many copies did Acolyte sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 65 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 65 reviews (Mostly 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 Acolyte and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Acolyte's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 513–708

best case 123k (AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative)

Games like Acolyte

A typical game among these

≈ 513–708 copies

≈ $2k after Steam's cut

from ~18 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative at ≈ 94k–153k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M 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 65 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 1k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (6 of 8) and Artificial Intelligence (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Detective + Futuristic + Mystery; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 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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