How much revenue did Apocalipsis make?

$31k–$82k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Apocalipsis sell?

Q: How many copies did Apocalipsis sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 525 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $31k–$82k after Steam's cut $56k–$127k before Steam's cut; from 525 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 Apocalipsis and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Apocalipsis's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 558k–1.5M

best case 1.4M (Firework)

Games like Apocalipsis

A typical game among these

≈ 558k–1.5M copies

≈ $2.5M–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Firework at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Psychological Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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