How much revenue did I Wanna Quit My Job make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I Wanna Quit My Job sell?

Q: How many copies did I Wanna Quit My Job sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 I Wanna Quit My Job and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I Wanna Quit My Job's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–579k

best case 12.1M (DOOM)

Games like I Wanna Quit My Job

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–579k copies

≈ $42k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~871 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 Fast-Paced (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: DOOM at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 38 reviews in their first month; the range was 22 to 144.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fast-Paced (4 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Gore, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M 255x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's cut $92.3M–$209.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Nasty Zombies 2024	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $37k–$83k before Steam's cut	$11.99	246 reviews Very Positive	ActionShooter
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 30x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.3M before Steam's cut	$7.99	26k reviews Very Positive	HorrorSingleplayer
Christmas Massacre 2021	Est. copies ≈ 28k–45k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $61k–$163k after Steam's cut $110k–$251k before Steam's cut	$7.99	1k reviews Very Positive	ViolentAction
White Noise 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 98k–160k 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $270k–$726k after Steam's cut $491k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
SWARMRIDERS 2016	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	627 reviews Very Positive	ActionFree to Play
Last Floor 2020	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $25k–$68k after Steam's cut $46k–$105k before Steam's cut	$9.99	373 reviews Mostly Positive	IndieAction
CARNAGE OFFERING 2022	Est. copies ≈ 5k–9k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$62k before Steam's cut	$9.99	219 reviews Mostly Positive	ActionFPS