How much revenue did Firelight Fantasy: Resistance make?

$16k–$44k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Firelight Fantasy: Resistance sell?

Q: How many copies did Firelight Fantasy: Resistance sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 201 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$68k before Steam's cut; from 201 reviews (Mixed)

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 Firelight Fantasy: Resistance and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Firelight Fantasy: Resistance's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–2.0M

best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)

Games like Firelight Fantasy: Resistance

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–2.0M copies

≈ $8.2M–$27.6M after Steam's cut

from ~39k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (4 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal 2023	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M 5.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.6M–$82.4M after Steam's cut $55.7M–$126.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	225k reviews Mixed	ManagementSingleplayer
Backrooms: Escape Together 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	50k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerHorror
Neon Abyss 2020	Est. copies ≈ 586k–952k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.6M after Steam's cut $9.2M–$21.0M before Steam's cut	$31.49	24k reviews Very Positive	Rogue-like Platformer
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.9M–$66.8M after Steam's cut $45.2M–$102.8M before Steam's cut	$49.99	73k reviews Very Positive	AnimeAction
Children of Morta 2019	Est. copies ≈ 674k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.9M before Steam's cut	$21.99	23k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerRogue-like
BlazBlue Entropy Effect 2024	Est. copies ≈ 908k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut $9.1M–$20.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	37k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeAction-Adventure
暖雪 Warm Snow 2022	Est. copies ≈ 971k–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.8M–$12.9M after Steam's cut $8.7M–$19.9M before Steam's cut	$17.99	39k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
Battlecry Berserkers 2024	Est. copies ≈ 99–161 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $150–$402 after Steam's cut $272–$619 before Steam's cut	$5.49	4 reviews 4 user reviews	RPGAction Roguelike