How much revenue did ATLYSS make?

$1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ATLYSS sell?

Q: How many copies did ATLYSS sell?

572k to 930k copies, based on its 23k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 572k–930k; $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.5M before Steam's cut; from 23k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 ATLYSS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ATLYSS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.7M

best case 10.8M (Monster Hunter Wilds)

Games like ATLYSS

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies

≈ $7.4M–$12.8M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Souls-like (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Monster Hunter Wilds at ≈ 8.2M–13.4M copies, ≈ $90.5M–$243.4M 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 18k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 183k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Souls-like (4 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Atmospheric + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 2 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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Monster Hunter Wilds 2025	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.4M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $90.5M–$243.4M after Steam's cut $164.6M–$374.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	332k reviews Mixed	HuntingAction
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.8M–7.7M 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $52.3M–$140.6M after Steam's cut $95.1M–$216.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	156k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
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