How much revenue did Time Lock VR 1 make?

$93k–$250k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Time Lock VR 1 sell?

Q: How many copies did Time Lock VR 1 sell?

26k to 42k copies, based on its 757 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–42k; $93k–$250k after Steam's cut $169k–$385k before Steam's cut; from 757 reviews (Mostly 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 Time Lock VR 1 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Time Lock VR 1's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–99k

best case 4.6M (MiSide)

Games like Time Lock VR 1

A typical game among these

≈ 41k–99k copies

≈ $184k–$631k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (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: MiSide at ≈ 3.5M–5.8M copies, ≈ $14.6M–$39.2M 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 383 reviews in their first month; the range was 193 to 64k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Cute + Sexual Content + 3D; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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