How much revenue did Spelldrifter make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spelldrifter sell?

Q: How many copies did Spelldrifter sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (Mixed)

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 Spelldrifter and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Spelldrifter's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 93k–594k

best case 799k (Marvel's Midnight Suns)

Games like Spelldrifter

A typical game among these

≈ 93k–594k copies

≈ $771k–$10.0M 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

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

Best case: Marvel's Midnight Suns at ≈ 609k–990k copies, ≈ $10.0M–$27.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 521 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tactical RPG (4 of 4) and Turn-Based Tactics (3 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Superhero + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $60.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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