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How many copies did Anoxemia sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 21k–35k
$53k–$142k after Steam's cut $96k–$219k before Steam's cut
from 439 reviews (Mixed)

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 Anoxemia and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anoxemia's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.9M–10.6M
best case 38.8M (Portal 2)
Games like Anoxemia

A typical game among these

≈ 4.9M–10.6M copies

≈ $43.3M–$79.9M after Steam's cut

from ~149k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Dark Humor + Story Rich + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2007 to 2022, 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 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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