How much revenue did Aestik make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aestik sell?

Q: How many copies did Aestik sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 109 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before Steam's cut; from 109 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 Aestik and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aestik's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 226k–2.1M

best case 25.6M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Aestik

A typical game among these

≈ 226k–2.1M copies

≈ $1.7M–$18.5M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.5M–31.6M copies, ≈ $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (7 of 8) and Metroidvania (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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