How much revenue did X Invader make?

$20k–$53k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did X Invader sell?

Q: How many copies did X Invader sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 580 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$82k before Steam's cut; from 580 reviews (Mostly 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 X Invader and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including X Invader's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 151k–198k

best case 5.2M (The Binding of Isaac)

Games like X Invader

A typical game among these

≈ 151k–198k copies

≈ $319k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: The Binding of Isaac at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 590 to 41k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike, priced around $9. The breakout hits carry Dwarf + PvE + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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