How much revenue did CONFUSION make?

CONFUSION is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did CONFUSION sell?

Q: How many copies did CONFUSION sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; from 22 reviews (Mixed)

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 CONFUSION and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CONFUSION's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.5M

best case 23.0M (No Man's Sky)

Games like CONFUSION

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.5M copies

≈ $9.6M–$12.9M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.5M–28.5M copies, ≈ $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Survival + Open World Survival Craft + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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