How much revenue did Vaporum make?

$202k–$544k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vaporum sell?

Q: How many copies did Vaporum sell?

37k to 60k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 37k–60k; $202k–$544k after Steam's cut $368k–$836k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Vaporum and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vaporum's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–379k

best case 384k (FlyKnight Enhanced Edition)

Games like Vaporum

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–379k copies

≈ $10k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FlyKnight Enhanced Edition at ≈ 292k–475k copies, ≈ $482k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 572 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and CRPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + First-Person, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, 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 79 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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Legend of Grimrock 2012	Est. copies ≈ 426k–692k 6.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
FlyKnight Enhanced Edition 2025	Est. copies ≈ 292k–475k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $482k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $876k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$5.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Dungeon CrawlerFirst-Person
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord 2024	Est. copies ≈ 32k–52k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $308k–$828k after Steam's cut $560k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$34.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Dungeon Crawler CRPG
Dungeon Scavenger 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before Steam's cut	$7.99	112 reviews Very Positive	ExplorationTactical RPG
StarCrawlers 2017	Est. copies ≈ 31k–50k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $170k–$457k after Steam's cut $309k–$703k before Steam's cut	$19.99	899 reviews Very Positive	RPGDungeon Crawler
Depths of Faveg 2024	Est. copies ≈ 694–1k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$4.99	28 reviews Positive	Class-BasedTurn-Based Combat
Burial Stone 2022	Est. copies ≈ 422–685 SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$9.99	17 reviews Positive	CRPGTactical RPG
Lunacid 2023	Est. copies ≈ 287k–467k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut	$13.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerDark Fantasy