How much revenue did Abyss Odyssey make?

$585k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Abyss Odyssey sell?

Q: How many copies did Abyss Odyssey sell?

142k to 231k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 142k–231k; $585k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

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 Abyss Odyssey and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Abyss Odyssey's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 226k–1.3M

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like Abyss Odyssey

A typical game among these

≈ 226k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.6M–$9.1M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Dead Cells at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Metroidvania, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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 79 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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