How much revenue did Abnormal1999:Sector 49 make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Abnormal1999:Sector 49 sell?

Q: How many copies did Abnormal1999:Sector 49 sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 133 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 133 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 Abnormal1999:Sector 49 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Abnormal1999:Sector 49's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 423k–748k

best case 437k (The Talos Principle 2)

Games like Abnormal1999:Sector 49

A typical game among these

≈ 423k–748k copies

≈ $3.9M–$5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: The Talos Principle 2 at ≈ 333k–541k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 34 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 5k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Walking Simulator (8 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $30.
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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