How much revenue did Genopanic make?

$24k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Genopanic sell?

Q: How many copies did Genopanic sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 385 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $24k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$98k before Steam's cut; from 385 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 Genopanic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Genopanic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–211k

best case 342k (Afterimage)

Games like Genopanic

A typical game among these

≈ 60k–211k copies

≈ $498k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Afterimage at ≈ 260k–423k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 733 reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Side Scroller (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Female Protagonist, priced around $25.
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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