How much revenue did Section 13 make?

$125k–$335k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Section 13 sell?

Q: How many copies did Section 13 sell?

23k to 37k copies, based on its 915 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–37k; $125k–$335k after Steam's cut $227k–$516k before Steam's cut; from 915 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 Section 13 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Section 13's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65k–293k

best case 1.6M (Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor)

Games like Section 13

A typical game among these

≈ 65k–293k copies

≈ $475k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.6M 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 203 to 41k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Action Roguelike, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2020 to 2026, 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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