How much revenue did The Indigo Parallel make?

$25k–$67k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Indigo Parallel sell?

Q: How many copies did The Indigo Parallel sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 281 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before Steam's cut; from 281 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 Indigo Parallel and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Indigo Parallel's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 618k–1.3M

best case 1.6M (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader)

Games like The Indigo Parallel

A typical game among these

≈ 618k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.5M–$11.2M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choices Matter (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Cinematic, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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