How much revenue did 1000xRESIST make?

$962k–$2.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 1000xRESIST sell?

Q: How many copies did 1000xRESIST sell?

175k to 284k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 175k–284k; $962k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$4.0M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 1000xRESIST and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 1000xRESIST's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–660k

best case 3.4M (Half-Life: Alyx)

Games like 1000xRESIST

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–660k copies

≈ $27k–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Female Protagonist (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: Half-Life: Alyx at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies, ≈ $43.2M–$116.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (4 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + FPS, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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Half-Life: Alyx 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $43.2M–$116.1M after Steam's cut $78.5M–$178.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	106k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRFPS
Operation: Tango - Friend Pass 2020	Est. copies ≈ 57k–92k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpCo-op Campaign
Bright Memory: Infinite 2021	Est. copies ≈ 990k–1.6M 7.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	40k reviews Very Positive	ActionFemale Protagonist
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Fumiko! 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut	$6.99	113 reviews Very Positive	Artificial IntelligenceDystopian
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The Paracelsian Project 2023	Est. copies ≈ 273–443 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $375–$1k after Steam's cut $681–$2k before Steam's cut	$4.99	11 reviews Mostly Positive	Visual Novel Puzzle