How much revenue did Project Third Eye make?

$14k–$39k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Project Third Eye sell?

Q: How many copies did Project Third Eye sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 176 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $14k–$39k after Steam's cut $26k–$60k before Steam's cut; from 176 reviews (Mostly 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 Project Third Eye and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Project Third Eye's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–8.5M

best case 12.2M (VRChat)

Games like Project Third Eye

A typical game among these

≈ 4.4M–8.5M copies

≈ $29.1M–$34.3M after Steam's cut

from ~89k 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: VRChat at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 107 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 274.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (6 of 8) and Programming (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Anime.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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