How much revenue did Acid Planet make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Acid Planet sell?

Q: How many copies did Acid Planet sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 71 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 71 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 Acid Planet and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Acid Planet's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–6k

best case 42k (Lumencraft)

Games like Acid Planet

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–6k copies

≈ $18k–$36k after Steam's cut

from ~138 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Lumencraft at ≈ 32k–52k copies, ≈ $176k–$472k 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 65 reviews in their first month; the range was 35 to 786.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Strategy + Action RPG + Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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