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How many copies did G-Darius HD sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–7k
$34k–$92k after Steam's cut $62k–$142k before Steam's cut
from 168 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 G-Darius HD and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including G-Darius HD's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 306k–785k
best case 1.1M (My Friend Pedro)
Games like G-Darius HD

A typical game among these

≈ 306k–785k copies

≈ $1.1M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: My Friend Pedro at ≈ 821k–1.3M copies, ≈ $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Shooter (6 of 8) and Side Scroller (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Shooter + Parkour, priced around $20.
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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