How much revenue did STRAFE: Gold Edition make?

$349k–$937k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did STRAFE: Gold Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did STRAFE: Gold Edition sell?

85k to 137k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 85k–137k; $349k–$937k after Steam's cut $634k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 STRAFE: Gold Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STRAFE: Gold Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 983k–1.1M

best case 11.5M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like STRAFE: Gold Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 983k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.9M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.8M–14.2M copies, ≈ $60.2M–$161.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 21k reviews in their first month; the range was 8k to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + FPS, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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 52 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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