How many copies did Fuse sell?

127k to 206k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Fuse make?

Fuse is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Fuse?

Estimated owners: ≈ 127k–206k; from 2k reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Fuse out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fuse's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.7M–25.9M

best case 31.9M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like Fuse

The middle of these games

≈ 8.7M–25.9M copies

≈ $460.8M–$669.0M after Steam's cut

from ~345k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Character Customization (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Cyberpunk 2077 at ≈ 24.3M–39.4M copies, ≈ $400.4M–$1076.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 33k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Character Customization (3 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Open World, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared 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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