How much revenue did Devader make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Devader sell?

Q: How many copies did Devader sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 55 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 55 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 Devader and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Devader's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 117k–184k

best case 206k (Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok)

Games like Devader

A typical game among these

≈ 117k–184k copies

≈ $510k–$701k after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok at ≈ 157k–256k copies, ≈ $432k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 244 reviews in their first month; the range was 22 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arena Shooter (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $10.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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