How much revenue did Escape First Alchemist ⚗️ make?

$76k–$205k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape First Alchemist ⚗️ sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape First Alchemist ⚗️ sell?

28k to 45k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–45k; $76k–$205k after Steam's cut $139k–$315k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Escape First Alchemist ⚗️ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape First Alchemist ⚗️'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 175k–452k

best case 12.2M (Hogwarts Legacy)

Games like Escape First Alchemist ⚗️

A typical game among these

≈ 175k–452k copies

≈ $1.6M–$2.4M 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: Hogwarts Legacy at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies, ≈ $153.2M–$412.0M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 464 to 171k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (6 of 8) and Magic (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Magic + Open World, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Character Customization + Exploration + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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