How much revenue did Convoy make?

$295k–$793k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Convoy sell?

Q: How many copies did Convoy sell?

72k to 116k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 72k–116k; $295k–$793k after Steam's cut $536k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Convoy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Convoy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 155k–303k

best case 420k (Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander)

Games like Convoy

A typical game among these

≈ 155k–303k copies

≈ $964k–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Exploration (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: Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander at ≈ 320k–521k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 759 reviews in their first month; the range was 20 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (4 of 8) and Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sci-fi + Space, priced around $20.
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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Kingdom Eighties 2023	Est. copies ≈ 83k–135k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $273k–$735k after Steam's cut $497k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$11.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	ExplorationSide Scroller
Warpips 2022	Est. copies ≈ 130k–211k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $605k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$16.99	5k reviews Very Positive	StrategyTower Defense
Airships: Conquer the Skies 2018	Est. copies ≈ 201k–327k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Vehicular Combat4X
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Dog Duty 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut	$4.99	126 reviews Mostly Positive	WarIndie
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander 2022	Est. copies ≈ 320k–521k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Sci-fiSingleplayer
Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $787–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$1.99	58 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessExploration
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