How much revenue did CODE VEIN make?

$29.8M–$80.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CODE VEIN sell?

Q: How many copies did CODE VEIN sell?

1.8M to 2.9M copies, based on its 63k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.8M–2.9M; $29.8M–$80.0M after Steam's cut $54.1M–$123.1M before Steam's cut; from 63k 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 CODE VEIN and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CODE VEIN's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–6.0M

best case 6.2M (DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED)

Games like CODE VEIN

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–6.0M copies

≈ $13.4M–$88.3M after Steam's cut

from ~68k 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 Action RPG (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: DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED at ≈ 4.8M–7.7M copies, ≈ $52.3M–$140.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (3 of 8) and Animation & Modeling (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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MONSTER HUNTER RISE 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.1M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut $63.0M–$143.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	127k reviews Very Positive	ActionHunting