How much revenue did Kvark make?

$69k–$185k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kvark sell?

Q: How many copies did Kvark sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 504 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $69k–$185k after Steam's cut $125k–$284k before Steam's cut; from 504 reviews (Very 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 Kvark and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kvark's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–3.4M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Kvark

A typical game among these

≈ 2.5M–3.4M copies

≈ $9.5M–$29.3M after Steam's cut

from ~59k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is FPS (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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Vehicular Combat + World War II; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2023, and none of them 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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Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	105k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.1M–$81.0M after Steam's cut $54.8M–$124.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	43k reviews Very Positive	ActionFPS
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Rising Storm 2: Vietnam 2017	Est. copies ≈ 413–671 too small to compare SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut	$24.99	12 reviews Positive	FPSWar