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How many copies did Doomsday Jetlag sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 99–161
$81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before Steam's cut
from 4 reviews (4 user reviews)
Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–130k
best case 1.2M (BlazBlue Entropy Effect)
Games like Doomsday Jetlag

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–130k copies

≈ $92k–$755k after Steam's cut

from ~879 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: BlazBlue Entropy Effect at ≈ 908k–1.5M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 248 reviews in their first month; the range was 44 to 14k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Action-Adventure, priced around $20.
When they shipped
4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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