How much revenue did SOULVARS make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SOULVARS sell?

Q: How many copies did SOULVARS sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 108 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before Steam's cut; from 108 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 SOULVARS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SOULVARS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–46k

best case 97k (Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening)

Games like SOULVARS

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–46k copies

≈ $56k–$577k after Steam's cut

from ~583 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening at ≈ 74k–121k copies, ≈ $367k–$988k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 328 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (6 of 8) and Card Battler (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + JRPG, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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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