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How many copies did Roboquest sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 608k–989k
$4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.3M before Steam's cut
from 25k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Roboquest and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Roboquest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 143k–999k
best case 3.4M (Gunfire Reborn)
Games like Roboquest

A typical game among these

≈ 143k–999k copies

≈ $1.2M–$8.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Gunfire Reborn at ≈ 2.6M–4.2M copies, ≈ $14.2M–$38.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share FPS (4 of 4) and Action Roguelike (3 of 4).
The winners
Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + FPS, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 to 2023, 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 43 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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Est. copies
≈ 91k–148k
SteamSpy 1M–2M
Est. revenue
$627k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut
$24.99
4k reviews
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Void Bastards
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Est. copies
≈ 157k–255k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
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$1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.3M before Steam's cut
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Gunfire Reborn
2021
Est. copies
≈ 2.6M–4.2M
23x vs typical
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$14.2M–$38.1M after Steam's cut $25.7M–$58.5M before Steam's cut
$19.99
104k reviews
Very Positive
Immortal Redneck
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Est. copies
≈ 115k–187k
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$632k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut
$19.95
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