How much revenue did Contrast make?

$989k–$2.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Contrast sell?

Q: How many copies did Contrast sell?

360k to 585k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 360k–585k; $989k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before the cut; from 6k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Contrast out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Contrast's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.6M–8.7M

best case 40.5M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Contrast

The middle of these games

≈ 5.6M–8.7M copies

≈ $43.1M–$54.8M after Steam's cut

from ~152k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Exploration (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.9M–50.1M copies, ≈ $42.3M–$113.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (3 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Mature + Utilities + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 38 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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