How much revenue did SAO Utils: Beta make?

$101k–$272k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SAO Utils: Beta sell?

Q: How many copies did SAO Utils: Beta sell?

92k to 150k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 92k–150k; $101k–$272k after Steam's cut $184k–$419k before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 SAO Utils: Beta and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SAO Utils: Beta's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 289k–610k

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like SAO Utils: Beta

A typical game among these

≈ 289k–610k copies

≈ $525k–$2.8M 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Software (8 of 8) and Utilities (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Software + Utilities, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry NSFW; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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