How much revenue did Isle of Arrows make?

$98k–$264k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Isle of Arrows sell?

Q: How many copies did Isle of Arrows sell?

28k to 45k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–45k; $98k–$264k after Steam's cut $179k–$406k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Isle of Arrows and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Isle of Arrows's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 846–18k

best case 38k (Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons)

Games like Isle of Arrows

A typical game among these

≈ 846–18k copies

≈ $891–$57k after Steam's cut

from ~78 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons at ≈ 29k–48k copies, ≈ $56k–$152k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 36 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 840.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sexual Content + Rogue-lite, priced around $7.
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 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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