How much revenue did Complex Loop make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Complex Loop sell?

Q: How many copies did Complex Loop sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 72 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 Complex Loop and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Complex Loop's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–17k

best case 62k (Critters for Sale)

Games like Complex Loop

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–17k copies

≈ $24k–$93k after Steam's cut

from ~350 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Critters for Sale at ≈ 48k–77k copies, ≈ $131k–$351k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 69 reviews in their first month; the range was 10 to 322.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Surreal + Gore, priced around $10.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos 2021	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $84k–$225k after Steam's cut $152k–$347k before Steam's cut	$29.99	410 reviews Very Positive	VRVisual Novel
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