How much revenue did Kalyzmyr make?

$755–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kalyzmyr sell?

Q: How many copies did Kalyzmyr 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; $755–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k 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 Kalyzmyr and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kalyzmyr's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.0M–10.8M

best case 31.8M (Dying Light)

Games like Kalyzmyr

A typical game among these

≈ 6.0M–10.8M copies

≈ $79.7M–$259.3M after Steam's cut

from ~194k 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 Hack and Slash (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: Dying Light at ≈ 24.2M–39.3M copies, ≈ $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 41k reviews in their first month; the range was 33k to 128k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (3 of 8) and Third Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, and none of them 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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