How much revenue did Vector 36 make?

$61k–$163k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vector 36 sell?

Q: How many copies did Vector 36 sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 257 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $61k–$163k after Steam's cut $110k–$251k before Steam's cut; from 257 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 Vector 36 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vector 36's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–64k

best case 699k (SimplePlanes)

Games like Vector 36

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–64k copies

≈ $26k–$431k after Steam's cut

from ~402 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SimplePlanes at ≈ 533k–865k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 146 reviews in their first month; the range was 73 to 371.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (7 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Sandbox, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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