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How many copies did Ants Took My Eyeball sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 6k–11k
$23k–$62k after Steam's cut $42k–$96k before Steam's cut
from 262 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 Ants Took My Eyeball and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ants Took My Eyeball's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–33k
best case 1.3M (Lost Castle / 失落城堡)
Games like Ants Took My Eyeball

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–33k copies

≈ $19k–$151k after Steam's cut

from ~409 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Lost Castle / 失落城堡 at ≈ 998k–1.6M copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 155 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 325.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with 4 Player Local + Action Roguelike, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2026, and 2 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 61 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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