How much revenue did Pixel Slayer make?

$128–$345 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pixel Slayer sell?

Q: How many copies did Pixel Slayer sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $128–$345 after Steam's cut $233–$531 before Steam's cut; from 19 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Pixel Slayer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Slayer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–475k

best case 972k (IdleOn - The Incremental MMO)

Games like Pixel Slayer

A typical game among these

≈ 66k–475k copies

≈ $110k–$277k 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: IdleOn - The Incremental MMO at ≈ 741k–1.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 104 to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (8 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + MMORPG.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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IdleOn - The Incremental MMO 2025	Est. copies ≈ 741k–1.2M 7.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	30k reviews Mostly Positive	IdlerPixel Graphics
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