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How many copies did Poetry of Blood: Eclipse sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 12k–20k
$51k–$136k after Steam's cut $92k–$209k before Steam's cut
from 495 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 Poetry of Blood: Eclipse and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Poetry of Blood: Eclipse's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 167k–992k
best case 4.0M (Hades II)
Games like Poetry of Blood: Eclipse

A typical game among these

≈ 167k–992k copies

≈ $1.1M–$7.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

Best case: Hades II at ≈ 3.1M–5.0M copies, ≈ $25.3M–$68.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 86k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Rogue-lite, priced around $30.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2026, and 2 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 61 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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