How much revenue did Project Malice make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Project Malice sell?

Q: How many copies did Project Malice sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 69 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$19k before Steam's cut; from 69 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 Project Malice and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Project Malice's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 375k–975k

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like Project Malice

A typical game among these

≈ 375k–975k copies

≈ $2.6M–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 409 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 61 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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