How many copies did Protonwar sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 114 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Protonwar make?

Protonwar is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Protonwar?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 3k–6k; from 114 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 Protonwar and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Protonwar's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 57k–99k

best case 71k (STRIDE)

Games like Protonwar

A typical game among these

≈ 57k–99k copies

≈ $492k–$519k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: STRIDE at ≈ 54k–88k copies, ≈ $296k–$797k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 303 reviews in their first month; the range was 70 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (7 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Sports, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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