How much revenue did ScreenSaver Battle make?

$327–$878 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ScreenSaver Battle sell?

Q: How many copies did ScreenSaver Battle sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $327–$878 after Steam's cut $594–$1k before Steam's cut; from 16 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 ScreenSaver Battle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ScreenSaver Battle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 55k–103k

best case 103k (Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef)

Games like ScreenSaver Battle

A typical game among these

≈ 55k–103k copies

≈ $215k–$226k 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: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef at ≈ 79k–128k copies, ≈ $433k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 871 reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (5 of 8) and Bullet Hell (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Warhammer 40K + Side Scroller, priced around $20.
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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