How much revenue did Fictorum make?

$110k–$296k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fictorum sell?

Q: How many copies did Fictorum sell?

40k to 65k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 40k–65k; $110k–$296k after Steam's cut $200k–$455k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Fictorum and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fictorum's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 550k–696k

best case 841k (Wizard of Legend)

Games like Fictorum

A typical game among these

≈ 550k–696k copies

≈ $3.1M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: Wizard of Legend at ≈ 641k–1.0M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 15 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 15k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $16.
When they shipped: 7 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 38 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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