How much revenue did Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire make?

$24k–$65k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire sell?

Q: How many copies did Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 178 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $24k–$65k after Steam's cut $44k–$100k before Steam's cut; from 178 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 Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–132k

best case 205k (Ship of Fools)

Games like Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–132k copies

≈ $32k–$979k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ship of Fools at ≈ 156k–253k copies, ≈ $943k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 263 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (6 of 8) and Tower Defense (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Rogue-lite, priced around $22.
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 61 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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