How much revenue did Aquaria make?

$267k–$717k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aquaria sell?

Q: How many copies did Aquaria sell?

97k to 158k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 97k–158k; $267k–$717k after Steam's cut $485k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Aquaria and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aquaria's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 317k–658k

best case 1.6M (Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night)

Games like Aquaria

A typical game among these

≈ 317k–658k copies

≈ $1.8M–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $13.2M–$35.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Female Protagonist (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Female Protagonist, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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Afterimage 2023	Est. copies ≈ 260k–423k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	MetroidvaniaFemale Protagonist
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