How much revenue did Xion make?

$5k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Xion sell?

Q: How many copies did Xion sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut; from 54 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 Xion and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Xion's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–41k

best case 58k (Ancient Dungeon)

Games like Xion

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–41k copies

≈ $93k–$318k after Steam's cut

from ~564 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ancient Dungeon at ≈ 44k–71k copies, ≈ $241k–$649k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 272 reviews in their first month; the range was 108 to 393.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (8 of 8) and Voxel (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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