How much revenue did Absolute Insanity make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Absolute Insanity sell?

Q: How many copies did Absolute Insanity sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 66 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before Steam's cut; from 66 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 Absolute Insanity and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Absolute Insanity's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 130k–151k

best case 3.9M (Brotato)

Games like Absolute Insanity

A typical game among these

≈ 130k–151k copies

≈ $1.0M–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Brotato at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$10.9M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 590 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Bullet Hell; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Brotato 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M 30x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	119k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSingleplayer
Roboquest 2023	Est. copies ≈ 608k–989k 6.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSAction Roguelike
Nova Drift 2024	Est. copies ≈ 364k–592k 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.5M before Steam's cut	$17.99	15k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeArena Shooter
Deadlink 2023	Est. copies ≈ 91k–148k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $627k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	4k reviews Very Positive	FPSAction Roguelike
SNKRX 2021	Est. copies ≈ 108k–175k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $88k–$238k after Steam's cut $161k–$366k before Steam's cut	$2.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
Ziggurat 2014	Est. copies ≈ 222k–362k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $917k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Rogue-liteAction
Immortal Redneck 2017	Est. copies ≈ 115k–187k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $632k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$19.95	3k reviews Very Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
Golden Light 2022	Est. copies ≈ 99k–161k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $546k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $992k–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	3DAction