How much revenue did Victim make?

$204–$550 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Victim sell?

Q: How many copies did Victim sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $204–$550 after Steam's cut $370–$846 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Victim and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Victim's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 97k–241k

best case 240k (112 Operator)

Games like Victim

A typical game among these

≈ 97k–241k copies

≈ $415k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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 Military (3 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: 112 Operator at ≈ 183k–297k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Military (3 of 8) and RTS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Realistic, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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Lakeview Cabin Collection 2015	Est. copies ≈ 95k–154k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $260k–$699k after Steam's cut $473k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Survival Horror2D Platformer
112 Operator 2020	Est. copies ≈ 183k–297k 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	7k reviews Very Positive	SimulationRealistic
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