How much revenue did Phantom Spark make?

$33k–$88k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Phantom Spark sell?

Q: How many copies did Phantom Spark sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 239 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before Steam's cut; from 239 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 Phantom Spark and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Phantom Spark's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 48k–392k

best case 4.0M (The Crew™ 2)

Games like Phantom Spark

A typical game among these

≈ 48k–392k copies

≈ $515k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: The Crew™ 2 at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies, ≈ $25.0M–$67.2M 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 158 reviews in their first month; the range was 65 to 879.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (7 of 8) and Racing (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Open World + Automobile Sim + Massively Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 1 of the 8 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 52 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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Redout: Enhanced Edition 2016	Est. copies ≈ 194k–316k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	RacingFlight
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