How much revenue did SVFI make?

$33k–$88k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SVFI sell?

Q: How many copies did SVFI sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 684 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before Steam's cut; from 684 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 SVFI and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SVFI's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 366k–547k

best case 544k (ShareX)

Games like SVFI

A typical game among these

≈ 366k–547k copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ShareX at ≈ 415k–674k copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Utilities (8 of 8) and Video Production (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Photo Editing + Utilities.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2021, 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 70 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
LIV 2019	Est. copies ≈ 28k–45k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	963 reviews Very Positive	UtilitiesVideo Production
FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays 2018	Est. copies ≈ 70k–113k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $249k–$668k after Steam's cut $452k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$12.99	2k reviews Very Positive	UtilitiesGame Development
Action! - Gameplay Recording and Streaming 2014	Est. copies ≈ 418k–679k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.3M after Steam's cut $6.3M–$14.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Video ProductionAudio Production
ShareX 2015	Est. copies ≈ 415k–674k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Photo EditingUtilities
Movavi Video Editor Plus 2020 - Video Editing Software 2019	Est. copies ≈ 32k–52k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Video ProductionUtilities
HudSight - crosshair overlay 2021	Est. copies ≈ 143k–232k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $314k–$844k after Steam's cut $571k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$7.99	6k reviews Very Positive	UtilitiesVideo Production
Movavi Video Suite 18 - Video Making Software - Edit, Convert, Capture Screen, and more 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30k–49k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	989 reviews Mostly Positive	Video ProductionUtilities
Stream Avatars 2017	Est. copies ≈ 86k–140k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $354k–$952k after Steam's cut $644k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Video ProductionAnimation & Modeling