How much revenue did Super Cyborg make?

$56k–$151k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Super Cyborg sell?

Q: How many copies did Super Cyborg sell?

41k to 67k copies, based on its 841 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 41k–67k; $56k–$151k after Steam's cut $102k–$233k before Steam's cut; from 841 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 Super Cyborg and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Super Cyborg's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 223k–279k

best case 3.9M (Broforce)

Games like Super Cyborg

A typical game among these

≈ 223k–279k copies

≈ $946k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Gore (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: Broforce at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.3M–$33.0M 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 Gore (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + Parkour, priced around $17.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2019, 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 36 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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My Friend Pedro 2019	Est. copies ≈ 821k–1.3M 6.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	28k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionIndie
Turok 2015	Est. copies ≈ 207k–336k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	ActionDinosaurs
BEEP 2011	Est. copies ≈ 295k–480k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Very Positive	IndiePlatformer
BRAIN / OUT 2017	Est. copies ≈ 524k–851k 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Very Positive	Free to Play2D
Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 170k–276k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $606k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$12.99	6k reviews Very Positive	ActionSide Scroller
Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2015	Est. copies ≈ 212k–345k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $584k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	4k reviews Very Positive	ActionSide Scroller
Broforce 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut $22.3M–$50.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	61k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AmericaAction
Superfighters Deluxe 2018	Est. copies ≈ 109k–178k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $300k–$808k after Steam's cut $546k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	4k reviews Very Positive	ActionPixel Graphics