How much revenue did CULTIC make?

$599k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CULTIC sell?

Q: How many copies did CULTIC sell?

218k to 354k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 218k–354k; $599k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 CULTIC and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including CULTIC's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 266k–475k

best case 1.0M (DUSK)

Games like CULTIC

A typical game among these

≈ 266k–475k copies

≈ $2.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: DUSK at ≈ 778k–1.3M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Boomer Shooter (4 of 4) and FPS (4 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + FPS, priced around $20.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
DUSK 2018	Est. copies ≈ 778k–1.3M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
Prodeus 2022	Est. copies ≈ 205k–333k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
Ion Fury 2019	Est. copies ≈ 196k–318k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
AMID EVIL 2019	Est. copies ≈ 224k–363k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Old SchoolBoomer Shooter