How much revenue did Necromantic make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Necromantic sell?

Q: How many copies did Necromantic sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 125 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut; from 125 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 Necromantic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Necromantic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–121k

best case 710k (Death Must Die)

Games like Necromantic

A typical game among these

≈ 25k–121k copies

≈ $76k–$474k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Death Must Die at ≈ 541k–879k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 541 reviews in their first month; the range was 193 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $7.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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