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How many copies did Putridness VR sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 521–846
$1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut
from 21 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 Putridness VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Putridness VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–2.5M
best case 2.8M (SteamVR)
Games like Putridness VR

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–2.5M copies

≈ $9.5M–$26.3M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: SteamVR at ≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 25k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Shooter (6 of 8) and Realistic (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with VR + Software.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2026, and 3 of the 7 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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2.2x vs typical
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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SandboxVR
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