How much revenue did Synth Retro Vapor Wave make?

$439–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Synth Retro Vapor Wave sell?

Q: How many copies did Synth Retro Vapor Wave sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 65 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $439–$1k after Steam's cut $798–$2k before Steam's cut; from 65 reviews (Mostly 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 Synth Retro Vapor Wave and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Synth Retro Vapor Wave's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 124k–532k

best case 10.7M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Synth Retro Vapor Wave

A typical game among these

≈ 124k–532k copies

≈ $396k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.2M copies, ≈ $22.3M–$60.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 196 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 1980s (5 of 8) and Old School (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Top-Down, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 79 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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