How much revenue did ASCIILL make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ASCIILL sell?

Q: How many copies did ASCIILL sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 64 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before Steam's cut; from 64 reviews (Very 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 ASCIILL and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ASCIILL's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 89k–415k

best case 1.2M (Stoneshard)

Games like ASCIILL

A typical game among these

≈ 89k–415k copies

≈ $494k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: Stoneshard at ≈ 886k–1.4M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.4M after Steam's cut. 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 933 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (6 of 8) and Turn-Based (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like, priced around $32. The breakout hits carry Dark Fantasy + Lovecraftian + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2023, 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 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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