How much revenue did Neon Souls make?

$953–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Neon Souls sell?

Q: How many copies did Neon Souls sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 28 reviews (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 Neon Souls and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Neon Souls's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–56k

best case 55k (420BLAZEIT 2: GAME OF THE YEAR -=Dank Dreams and Goated Memes=- [#wow/11 Like and Subscribe] Poggerz Edition)

Games like Neon Souls

A typical game among these

≈ 52k–56k copies

≈ $160k–$304k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Surreal (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: 420BLAZEIT 2: GAME OF THE YEAR -=Dank Dreams and Goated Memes=- [#wow/11 Like and Subscribe] Poggerz Edition at ≈ 42k–68k copies, ≈ $126k–$340k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 742.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Surreal (4 of 8) and Psychedelic (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Satire + FPS, priced around $11.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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Ilamentia 2014	Est. copies ≈ 6k–9k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut	$2.99	103 reviews Mixed	PuzzleIndie
TEOCIDA 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$42k before Steam's cut	$9.99	149 reviews Very Positive	GothicDemons
Ritual: Crown of Horns 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $12k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$48k before Steam's cut	$19.99	73 reviews Mostly Positive	Top-Down ShooterTwin Stick Shooter
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG 2019	Est. copies ≈ 37k–60k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $203k–$547k after Steam's cut $370k–$841k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Psychological Horror JRPG
Xross Dreams 2022	Est. copies ≈ 595–967 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$14.99	24 reviews Mixed	ActionStrategy
420BLAZEIT 2: GAME OF THE YEAR -=Dank Dreams and Goated Memes=- [#wow/11 Like and Subscribe] Poggerz Edition 2024	Est. copies ≈ 42k–68k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $126k–$340k after Steam's cut $230k–$523k before Steam's cut	$10.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SatireAction