How much revenue did Square Shooter make?

$163–$438 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Square Shooter sell?

Q: How many copies did Square Shooter sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $163–$438 after Steam's cut $297–$674 before Steam's cut; from 12 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 Square Shooter and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Square Shooter's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 285–333k

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like Square Shooter

A typical game among these

≈ 285–333k copies

≈ $401–$5.9M after Steam's cut

from ~26 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 23 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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Nuclear Throne 2015	Est. copies ≈ 967k–1.6M 777x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.2M before Steam's cut	$11.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
Enter the Gungeon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M 3532x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut $28.1M–$63.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	90k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Bullet HellAction Roguelike
Keyboard Warrior: Dreamstate 2022	Est. copies ≈ 347–564 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $667–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$6.99	14 reviews Positive	Action RoguelikeArtificial Intelligence
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