How much revenue did Insidia make?

Insidia is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Insidia sell?

Q: How many copies did Insidia sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 218 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; from 218 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 Insidia and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Insidia's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.2M–10.1M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Insidia

A typical game among these

≈ 8.2M–10.1M copies

≈ $101.4M–$128.3M after Steam's cut

from ~239k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $14.
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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
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