How much revenue did S.U.B. make?

$67–$179 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did S.U.B. sell?

Q: How many copies did S.U.B. sell?

122 to 198 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 122–198; $67–$179 after Steam's cut $121–$276 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 S.U.B. and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including S.U.B.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 375–627

best case 6k (Fishlike)

Games like S.U.B.

A typical game among these

≈ 375–627 copies

≈ $778–$1k after Steam's cut

from ~14 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Fishlike at ≈ 5k–7k copies, ≈ $6k–$17k 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 14 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 81.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (8 of 8) and Score Attack (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Shoot 'Em Up + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 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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