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How many copies did PUTRID SHOT ULTRA sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$978–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut
from 48 reviews (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 PUTRID SHOT ULTRA and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PUTRID SHOT ULTRA's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 101k–241k
best case 799k (Roboquest)
Games like PUTRID SHOT ULTRA

A typical game among these

≈ 101k–241k copies

≈ $529k–$2.2M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Roboquest at ≈ 608k–989k copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 158 to 12k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Rogue-lite (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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 43 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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