How much revenue did Post Trauma make?

$72k–$193k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Post Trauma sell?

Q: How many copies did Post Trauma sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 702 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $72k–$193k after Steam's cut $130k–$297k before Steam's cut; from 702 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 Post Trauma and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Post Trauma's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 276k–420k

best case 494k (Tails of Iron)

Games like Post Trauma

A typical game among these

≈ 276k–420k copies

≈ $3.4M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action RPG (3 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: Tails of Iron at ≈ 376k–611k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M 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 2k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (3 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Souls-like, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, and 3 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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Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded 2009	Est. copies ≈ 228k–371k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $313k–$842k after Steam's cut $569k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$4.99	4k reviews Very Positive	AliensLooter Shooter
SULFUR 2024	Est. copies ≈ 259k–421k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAction Roguelike
Amnesia: The Bunker 2023	Est. copies ≈ 314k–511k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Tails of Iron 2021	Est. copies ≈ 376k–611k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	15k reviews Very Positive	Action RPGSouls-like
Forever Skies 2025	Est. copies ≈ 225k–365k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	9k reviews Mostly Positive	SingleplayerExploration
HighFleet 2021	Est. copies ≈ 185k–300k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	7k reviews Very Positive	SingleplayerIndie
EVERSPACE™ 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 326k–529k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.0M after Steam's cut $8.1M–$18.5M before Steam's cut	$49.99	13k reviews Very Positive	ShooterSpace
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Remastered 2024	Est. copies ≈ 197k–319k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.2M before Steam's cut	$49.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureFemale Protagonist