How much revenue did Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura make?

$137k–$368k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura sell?

Q: How many copies did Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura sell?

83k to 135k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 83k–135k; $137k–$368k after Steam's cut $249k–$566k 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 Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–30k

best case 250k (The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut)

Games like Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

A typical game among these

≈ 21k–30k copies

≈ $236k–$257k after Steam's cut

from ~801 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Steampunk (4 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: The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut at ≈ 191k–310k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.3M 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 190 reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 310.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Steampunk (4 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hack and Slash + Action RPG, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Hack and Slash + Action RPG + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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