How much revenue did Gunborg: Dark Matters make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gunborg: Dark Matters sell?

Q: How many copies did Gunborg: Dark Matters sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 76 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before Steam's cut; from 76 reviews (Very 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 Gunborg: Dark Matters and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gunborg: Dark Matters's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k

best case 71k (Super Time Force Ultra)

Games like Gunborg: Dark Matters

A typical game among these

≈ 1k copies

≈ $2k–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~43 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.

Best case: Super Time Force Ultra at ≈ 54k–88k copies, ≈ $224k–$602k 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 19 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 540.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Bullet Hell (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + 2D Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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