How much revenue did Power Sink make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Power Sink sell?

Q: How many copies did Power Sink sell?

818 to 1k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 818–1k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 33 reviews (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 Power Sink and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Power Sink's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–16.2M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Power Sink

A typical game among these

≈ 3.1M–16.2M copies

≈ $40.0M–$128.2M after Steam's cut

from ~154k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Horror (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 21k reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 45k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (4 of 8) and Underwater (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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 79 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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BioShock™ 2 Remastered 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.9M–$18.7M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	30k reviews Mostly Positive	FPSAction
Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.6M–18.8M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.5M–$256.7M after Steam's cut $173.6M–$395.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	381k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.6M–20.5M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut $63.0M–$143.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	199k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Barotrauma 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.5M–$57.8M after Steam's cut $39.1M–$88.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	90k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–48.0M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut $147.5M–$335.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	467k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Subnautica: Below Zero 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.2M–$59.7M after Steam's cut $40.4M–$91.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	109k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Squidoku 2021	Est. copies ≈ 99–161 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $27–$73 after Steam's cut $49–$112 before Steam's cut	$0.99	4 reviews 4 user reviews	CasualPuzzle-Platformer
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