How much revenue did Mission 1985 make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mission 1985 sell?

Q: How many copies did Mission 1985 sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 37 reviews (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 Mission 1985 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mission 1985's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 85k–263k

best case 662k (12 is Better Than 6)

Games like Mission 1985

A typical game among these

≈ 85k–263k copies

≈ $321k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: 12 is Better Than 6 at ≈ 504k–820k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 536 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (8 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + Western, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, 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 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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