How much revenue did Volcanon make?

$272–$731 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Volcanon sell?

Q: How many copies did Volcanon sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $272–$731 after Steam's cut $494–$1k before the cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Thin evidence: 8 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Volcanon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Volcanon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.3M–17.3M

best case 39.4M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Volcanon

The middle of these games

≈ 8.3M–17.3M copies

≈ $144.1M–$173.5M after Steam's cut

from ~276k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Open World (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.8M copies, ≈ $495.5M–$1332.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 171k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 68k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Mythology + Action RPG + Souls-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 2 of your 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 79 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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