How much revenue did AntVentor make?

$22k–$59k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did AntVentor sell?

Q: How many copies did AntVentor sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 528 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$91k before Steam's cut; from 528 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 AntVentor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AntVentor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–4.4M

best case 5.3M (Little Nightmares)

Games like AntVentor

A typical game among these

≈ 2.1M–4.4M copies

≈ $31.9M–$43.3M after Steam's cut

from ~70k 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 Dark (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: Little Nightmares at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 48k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark (3 of 8) and Fighting (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 70 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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Mortal Kombat X 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.3M–$43.9M after Steam's cut $29.7M–$67.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	61k reviews Very Positive	FightingGore
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
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