How much revenue did Exanima make?

$2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Exanima sell?

Q: How many copies did Exanima sell?

683k to 1.1M copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 683k–1.1M; $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.6M before Steam's cut; from 14k reviews (Mostly 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 Exanima and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Exanima's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–136k

best case 2.9M (Noita)

Games like Exanima

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–136k copies

≈ $74k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~856 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 Dark Fantasy (2 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: Noita at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 679 reviews in their first month; the range was 33 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark Fantasy (2 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Physics + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2026, and 3 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Noita 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 104x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.6M after Steam's cut $22.0M–$50.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	89k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PhysicsRogue-like
3dSen PC 2025	Est. copies ≈ 14k–23k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $57k–$154k after Steam's cut $104k–$236k before Steam's cut	$14.99	559 reviews Very Positive	PlatformerAdventure
Dungeon Clawler 2026	Est. copies ≈ 100k–162k 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $411k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $748k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessRogue-lite
Grimlord 2024	Est. copies ≈ 29k–46k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $236k–$634k after Steam's cut $429k–$975k before Steam's cut	$29.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	VRSouls-like
Hellsplit: Arena 2019	Est. copies ≈ 114k–185k 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $783k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	4k reviews Very Positive	VRAction
Succubus With Guns 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	253 reviews Mixed	Female ProtagonistAnime
Alchemist Adventure 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before Steam's cut	$14.99	129 reviews Mostly Positive	Action-AdventureMedieval
Fated Kingdom 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9k–14k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $23k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$97k before Steam's cut	$9.99	296 reviews Mostly Positive	Board GameTabletop