How much revenue did The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited make?

$19k–$50k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited sell?

Q: How many copies did The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 274 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$77k before Steam's cut; from 274 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 The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 271k–717k

best case 1.1M (Superliminal)

Games like The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited

A typical game among these

≈ 271k–717k copies

≈ $908k–$5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

Best case: Superliminal at ≈ 848k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 321 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Surreal (8 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + First-Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Superliminal 2020	Est. copies ≈ 848k–1.4M 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
NaissanceE 2014	Est. copies ≈ 250k–406k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Very Positive	ExplorationIndie
Hylics 2015	Est. copies ≈ 446k–724k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $366k–$985k after Steam's cut $666k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$2.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SurrealIndie
INDIKA 2024	Est. copies ≈ 238k–387k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Very Positive	SurrealPuzzle
Manifold Garden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 213k–346k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleSurreal
Antichamber 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
Paradise Killer 2020	Est. copies ≈ 113k–183k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $619k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Story RichInvestigation
Samorost 2 2009	Est. copies ≈ 187k–303k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $256k–$689k after Steam's cut $466k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$4.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Point & ClickCasual