How much revenue did AMID THE LINES make?

$381–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did AMID THE LINES sell?

Q: How many copies did AMID THE LINES sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $381–$1k after Steam's cut $692–$2k before Steam's cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Only 8 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 AMID THE LINES and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AMID THE LINES's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–2.2M

best case 2.2M (REMNANT II®)

Games like AMID THE LINES

A typical game among these

≈ 2.1M–2.2M copies

≈ $28.4M–$36.1M after Steam's cut

from ~63k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Third-Person Shooter (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: REMNANT II® at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $23.5M–$63.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 39k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Third-Person Shooter (4 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Co-op, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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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