How much revenue did Orb of Aeternum make?

$920–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orb of Aeternum sell?

Q: How many copies did Orb of Aeternum sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $920–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 27 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 Orb of Aeternum and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Orb of Aeternum's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34k–290k

best case 846k (Dungeons 3)

Games like Orb of Aeternum

A typical game among these

≈ 34k–290k copies

≈ $138k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Dungeons 3 at ≈ 644k–1.0M copies, ≈ $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 395 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Villain Protagonist (7 of 8) and God Game (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Villain Protagonist + Base-Building, priced around $30.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 61 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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