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How many copies did Destroiders sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
$55–$147 after Steam's cut $100–$226 before Steam's cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Only 2 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 Destroiders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Destroiders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 195–556
best case 3k (Solar Struggle)
Games like Destroiders

A typical game among these

≈ 195–556 copies

≈ $311–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~12 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Solar Struggle at ≈ 2k–3k copies, ≈ $3k–$9k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
The games that made it here had under 9 reviews in their first month.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Arcade (6 of 8) and Space Sim (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Arcade + Shoot 'Em Up, priced around $6.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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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