How much revenue did Return to abyss 重返深渊 make?

$33k–$90k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Return to abyss 重返深渊 sell?

Q: How many copies did Return to abyss 重返深渊 sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 980 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; $33k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$138k before Steam's cut; from 980 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 Return to abyss 重返深渊 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return to abyss 重返深渊's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 174k–237k

best case 443k (Cultivation Tales)

Games like Return to abyss 重返深渊

A typical game among these

≈ 174k–237k copies

≈ $1.5M–$1.7M 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Cultivation Tales at ≈ 338k–549k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.0M 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 273 to 13k.

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 Action Roguelike + 2D Platformer, priced around $16. The breakout hits carry 2D Platformer + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 52 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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