How much revenue did Sol Cesto make?

$495k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sol Cesto sell?

Q: How many copies did Sol Cesto sell?

129k to 209k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 129k–209k; $495k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $901k–$2.0M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Sol Cesto and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sol Cesto's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 71k–367k

best case 732k (Dome Keeper)

Games like Sol Cesto

A typical game among these

≈ 71k–367k copies

≈ $444k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Dome Keeper at ≈ 558k–906k copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.4M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (7 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Post-apocalyptic + Rogue-like, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Post-apocalyptic + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, 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 79 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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