How much revenue did ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game make?

$1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game sell?

Q: How many copies did ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game sell?

321k to 522k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 321k–522k; $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before Steam's cut; from 11k reviews (Very 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 ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 157k–415k

best case 1.4M (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition)

Games like ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

A typical game among these

≈ 157k–415k copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Turn-Based Combat (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Combat (4 of 8) and CRPG (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Third Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, and 3 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 7.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.1M–$16.3M after Steam's cut $11.0M–$25.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	44k reviews Very Positive	SingleplayerAction RPG
Caves of Qud 2024	Est. copies ≈ 316k–514k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Procedural GenerationTurn-Based Combat
Necesse 2025	Est. copies ≈ 727k–1.2M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	29k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftMultiplayer
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG 2021	Est. copies ≈ 119k–194k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $985k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	CRPGTurn-Based Combat
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut 2014	Est. copies ≈ 454k–738k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	8k reviews Very Positive	RPGPost-apocalyptic
ATOM RPG Trudograd 2021	Est. copies ≈ 110k–179k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $334k–$897k after Steam's cut $607k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$10.99	4k reviews Very Positive	CRPGOpen World
Xenonauts 2 2026	Est. copies ≈ 145k–236k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	6k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
Against the Storm 2023	Est. copies ≈ 934k–1.5M 6.4x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	38k reviews Very Positive	StrategyCity Builder