How much revenue did FORCED SHOWDOWN make?

$156k–$418k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FORCED SHOWDOWN sell?

Q: How many copies did FORCED SHOWDOWN sell?

28k to 46k copies, based on its 680 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–46k; $156k–$418k after Steam's cut $283k–$643k before Steam's cut; from 680 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 FORCED SHOWDOWN and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FORCED SHOWDOWN's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–116k

best case 550k (Magicraft)

Games like FORCED SHOWDOWN

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–116k copies

≈ $26k–$585k 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: Magicraft at ≈ 419k–681k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$5.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 983 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $16.
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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