How much revenue did Precursors make?

$17k–$45k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Precursors sell?

Q: How many copies did Precursors sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 117 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $30k–$69k before Steam's cut; from 117 reviews (Mixed)

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 Precursors and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Precursors's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–8k

best case 39k (RIPOUT)

Games like Precursors

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–8k copies

≈ $3k–$56k after Steam's cut

from ~106 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: RIPOUT at ≈ 30k–49k copies, ≈ $165k–$444k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 33 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 979.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (8 of 8) and FPS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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 43 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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