How much revenue did Demon Corporation: Onboarding make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Demon Corporation: Onboarding sell?

Q: How many copies did Demon Corporation: Onboarding sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 65 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 65 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 Demon Corporation: Onboarding and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Demon Corporation: Onboarding's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.3M

best case 1.4M (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition)

Games like Demon Corporation: Onboarding

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–1.3M copies

≈ $6.9M–$11.2M after Steam's cut

from ~32k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-lite (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: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (4 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Third Person, 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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