How much revenue did Event[0] make?

$526k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Event[0] sell?

Q: How many copies did Event[0] sell?

96k to 155k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 96k–155k; $526k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $956k–$2.2M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Event[0] and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Event[0]'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16.3M–28.6M

best case 32.0M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like Event[0]

A typical game among these

≈ 16.3M–28.6M copies

≈ $146.6M–$373.0M after Steam's cut

from ~448k 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: Cyberpunk 2077 at ≈ 24.4M–39.6M copies, ≈ $402.0M–$1080.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the range was 35k to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (5 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Open World, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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