How much revenue did DRAINUS make?

$120k–$321k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DRAINUS sell?

Q: How many copies did DRAINUS sell?

29k to 47k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–47k; $120k–$321k after Steam's cut $217k–$494k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 DRAINUS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DRAINUS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.0M–15.6M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like DRAINUS

A typical game among these

≈ 6.0M–15.6M copies

≈ $89.3M–$171.7M after Steam's cut

from ~224k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Female Protagonist (4 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: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical. The breakout hits carry PvP + Tactical + e-sports; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2020, and none of them 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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Rise of the Tomb Raider™ 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $53.7M–$144.2M after Steam's cut $97.5M–$221.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	156k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAction
Resident Evil 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $70.9M–$190.7M after Steam's cut $129.0M–$293.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	224k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.6M–$79.6M after Steam's cut $53.8M–$122.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	89k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAction
Fallout 4 2015	Est. copies ≈ 21.0M–34.1M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut $209.4M–$476.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	429k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldPost-apocalyptic
Tomb Raider Game of the Year 2013	Est. copies ≈ 17.1M–27.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $94.0M–$252.8M after Steam's cut $171.0M–$388.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	271k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction
Half-Life: Alyx 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $43.2M–$116.1M after Steam's cut $78.5M–$178.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	106k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRFPS
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 76.0M–123.4M 6.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.6M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Battlefield™ V 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.7M–10.9M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $92.2M–$247.8M after Steam's cut $167.6M–$381.2M before Steam's cut	$49.99	270k reviews Mostly Positive	FPSMultiplayer