How much revenue did 1 Bit Survivor make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 1 Bit Survivor sell?

Q: How many copies did 1 Bit Survivor sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 101 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 101 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 1 Bit Survivor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 1 Bit Survivor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–55k

best case 321k (WORLD OF HORROR)

Games like 1 Bit Survivor

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–55k copies

≈ $14k–$501k after Steam's cut

from ~425 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Horror (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: WORLD OF HORROR at ≈ 245k–397k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 223 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (4 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Lovecraftian, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 1 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 43 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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