How much revenue did Sancticide make?

$19k–$50k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sancticide sell?

Q: How many copies did Sancticide sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 136 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$77k before Steam's cut; from 136 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 Sancticide and predicted how it would do from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Sancticide's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–3.9M

best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Sancticide

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–3.9M copies

≈ $34.8M–$84.1M after Steam's cut

from ~74k 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 5 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M copies, ≈ $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 28k reviews in their first month; the range was 14k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (3 of 5) and Combat (3 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Mythology + Souls-like + Action RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 5 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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