How much revenue did Volume make?

$192k–$516k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Volume sell?

Q: How many copies did Volume sell?

35k to 57k copies, based on its 715 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 35k–57k; $192k–$516k after Steam's cut $349k–$793k before Steam's cut; from 715 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 Volume and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Volume's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–3.3M

best case 5.8M (Stray)

Games like Volume

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–3.3M copies

≈ $6.1M–$37.0M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: Stray at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $36.6M–$98.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cyberpunk (6 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Cyberpunk, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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 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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Stray 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M 6.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $36.6M–$98.3M after Steam's cut $66.5M–$151.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	179k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsAdventure
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