How much revenue did PROXIMATE make?

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

How many copies did PROXIMATE sell?

Q: How many copies did PROXIMATE sell?

25k to 41k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–41k; $41k–$111k after Steam's cut $75k–$170k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Very 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 PROXIMATE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PROXIMATE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–336k

best case 4.2M (INSIDE)

Games like PROXIMATE

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–336k copies

≈ $12k–$7.1M 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.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: INSIDE at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 43 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 4k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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