How many copies did POSTAL sell?

916k to 1.5M copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did POSTAL make?

POSTAL is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is POSTAL?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 916k–1.5M; from 14k 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 POSTAL and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including POSTAL's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 579k–907k

best case 1.9M (Hatred)

Games like POSTAL

A typical game among these

≈ 579k–907k copies

≈ $2.3M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Gore (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: Hatred at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Gore (4 of 8) and Villain Protagonist (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Gore + Violent, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2022, 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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Hatred 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before Steam's cut	$5.99	30k reviews Very Positive	GoreViolent
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