How much revenue did Valefor make?

$16k–$42k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Valefor sell?

Q: How many copies did Valefor sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 153 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$65k before Steam's cut; from 153 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 Valefor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Valefor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–100k

best case 675k (Backpack Battles)

Games like Valefor

A typical game among these

≈ 18k–100k copies

≈ $84k–$642k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Backpack Battles at ≈ 515k–836k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 456 reviews in their first month; the range was 134 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Auto Battler (7 of 8) and Inventory Management (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Inventory Management, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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