How much revenue did Impaler Gold make?

$20k–$54k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Impaler Gold sell?

Q: How many copies did Impaler Gold sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 594 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $37k–$84k before Steam's cut; from 594 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 Impaler Gold and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Impaler Gold's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 76k–229k

best case 372k (BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE)

Games like Impaler Gold

A typical game among these

≈ 76k–229k copies

≈ $554k–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE at ≈ 283k–461k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M 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 616 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and FPS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Rhythm, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 43 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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