How much revenue did POWERNAUT DECAY make?

$265–$713 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did POWERNAUT DECAY sell?

Q: How many copies did POWERNAUT DECAY sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $265–$713 after Steam's cut $481–$1k before Steam's cut; from 13 reviews (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 POWERNAUT DECAY and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including POWERNAUT DECAY's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 530k–670k

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like POWERNAUT DECAY

A typical game among these

≈ 530k–670k copies

≈ $3.9M–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.1M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.6M–$149.5M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (7 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Metroidvania, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Action + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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