How much revenue did The Game of Sisyphus make?

$41k–$111k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Game of Sisyphus sell?

Q: How many copies did The Game of Sisyphus sell?

21k to 35k copies, based on its 866 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–35k; $41k–$111k after Steam's cut $75k–$171k before Steam's cut; from 866 reviews (Mostly 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 The Game of Sisyphus and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Game of Sisyphus's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 103k–1.1M

best case 4.9M (Crab Game)

Games like The Game of Sisyphus

A typical game among these

≈ 103k–1.1M copies

≈ $187k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 3D Platformer (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: Crab Game at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 75 to 77k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (4 of 8) and Parkour (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Battle Royale.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, 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 43 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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Crab Game 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	151k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorMultiplayer
Snake Pass 2017	Est. copies ≈ 115k–187k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $632k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	3D PlatformerIndie
Hans 2023	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before Steam's cut	$4.99	794 reviews Very Positive	DifficultPrecision Platformer
Gorilla Tag 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.5M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.7M–$31.6M after Steam's cut $21.4M–$48.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	86k reviews Very Positive	VRPsychological Horror
not available 2023	Est. copies ≈ 371k–603k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Mostly Positive	Parkour3D Platformer
ALTF4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 268k–435k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $220k–$592k after Steam's cut $400k–$911k before Steam's cut	$2.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	RunnerPhysics
BETON BRUTAL 2023	Est. copies ≈ 32k–52k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $62k–$166k after Steam's cut $112k–$256k before Steam's cut	$6.99	1k reviews Very Positive	3D PlatformerPrecision Platformer
Peaks of Yore 2023	Est. copies ≈ 94k–153k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $492k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $895k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$18.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DifficultPhysics