How much revenue did Robotherapy make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Robotherapy sell?

Q: How many copies did Robotherapy sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 127 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut; from 127 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 Robotherapy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Robotherapy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–24k

best case 36k (VirtuaVerse)

Games like Robotherapy

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–24k copies

≈ $23k–$136k after Steam's cut

from ~474 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Comedy (2 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: VirtuaVerse at ≈ 28k–45k copies, ≈ $114k–$306k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 205 reviews in their first month; the range was 22 to 471.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (2 of 8) and Dark Humor (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Point & Click, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 38 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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