How much revenue did DROOM make?

$164–$440 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DROOM sell?

Q: How many copies did DROOM sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $164–$440 after Steam's cut $298–$677 before Steam's cut; from 24 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 DROOM and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DROOM's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 407k–7.9M

best case 33.8M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)

Games like DROOM

A typical game among these

≈ 407k–7.9M copies

≈ $2.3M–$30.6M after Steam's cut

from ~48k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-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: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.8M–41.9M copies, ≈ $106.2M–$285.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (4 of 8) and Action Roguelike (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2022, and none of them 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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