How much revenue did Unaided: 1939 make?

$970–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unaided: 1939 sell?

Q: How many copies did Unaided: 1939 sell?

707 to 1k copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 707–1k; $970–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 17 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 Unaided: 1939 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unaided: 1939's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 35k–87k

best case 103k (Kill The Crows)

Games like Unaided: 1939

A typical game among these

≈ 35k–87k copies

≈ $202k–$284k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kill The Crows at ≈ 79k–128k copies, ≈ $108k–$291k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 353 reviews in their first month; the range was 183 to 603.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Top-Down Shooter (7 of 8) and Arcade (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Western + Arcade, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 52 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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