How much revenue did Elysium make?

$526–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Elysium sell?

Q: How many copies did Elysium sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 78 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $526–$1k after Steam's cut $957–$2k before Steam's cut; from 78 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 Elysium and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Elysium's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 70k–217k

best case 453k (Yog-Sothoth’s Yard)

Games like Elysium

A typical game among these

≈ 70k–217k copies

≈ $383k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Yog-Sothoth’s Yard at ≈ 345k–561k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 217 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Dating Sim, priced around $11.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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