How much revenue did Downward: Enhanced Edition make?

$53k–$144k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Downward: Enhanced Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Downward: Enhanced Edition sell?

19k to 32k copies, based on its 566 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–32k; $53k–$144k after Steam's cut $97k–$221k before Steam's cut; from 566 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 Downward: Enhanced Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Downward: Enhanced Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 764k–4.5M

best case 31.8M (Dying Light)

Games like Downward: Enhanced Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 764k–4.5M copies

≈ $3.1M–$104.2M 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: Dying Light at ≈ 24.2M–39.3M copies, ≈ $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (6 of 8) and Parkour (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, 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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