How much revenue did System Critical: The Race Against Time make?

$409–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did System Critical: The Race Against Time sell?

Q: How many copies did System Critical: The Race Against Time 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; $409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before Steam's cut; from 12 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 System Critical: The Race Against Time and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including System Critical: The Race Against Time's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 99k–141k

best case 2.7M (Rec Room)

Games like System Critical: The Race Against Time

A typical game among these

≈ 99k–141k copies

≈ $970k–$1.4M 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Rec Room at ≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 63 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (6 of 8) and VR (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Physics, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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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