How much revenue did VSCS-II make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did VSCS-II sell?

Q: How many copies did VSCS-II sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 23 reviews (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 VSCS-II and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including VSCS-II's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 258k–813k

best case 1.3M (Unheard - Voices of Crime)

Games like VSCS-II

A typical game among these

≈ 258k–813k copies

≈ $415k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Unheard - Voices of Crime at ≈ 981k–1.6M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 134 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $7.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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Unheard - Voices of Crime 2019	Est. copies ≈ 981k–1.6M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before Steam's cut	$6.99	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectivePuzzle
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