How much revenue did Insect Swarm make?

$128k–$344k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Insect Swarm sell?

Q: How many copies did Insect Swarm sell?

67k to 108k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 67k–108k; $128k–$344k after Steam's cut $232k–$529k before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Very 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 Insect Swarm and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Insect Swarm's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–39k

best case 125k (Sky Force Reloaded)

Games like Insect Swarm

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–39k copies

≈ $72k–$148k after Steam's cut

from ~618 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Sky Force Reloaded at ≈ 96k–155k copies, ≈ $263k–$706k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 91 reviews in their first month; the range was 62 to 379.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shoot 'Em Up (7 of 8) and Bullet Hell (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shoot 'Em Up + Arcade, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Local Co-Op + Top-Down Shooter + Top-Down; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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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