How much revenue did Neon Abyss make?

$5.1M–$13.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Neon Abyss sell?

Q: How many copies did Neon Abyss sell?

586k to 952k copies, based on its 24k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 586k–952k; $5.1M–$13.6M after Steam's cut $9.2M–$21.0M before Steam's cut; from 24k 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 Neon Abyss and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Neon Abyss's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–38k

best case 383k (Dungreed)

Games like Neon Abyss

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–38k copies

≈ $43k–$117k after Steam's cut

from ~581 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dungreed at ≈ 292k–474k copies, ≈ $802k–$2.2M 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 92 reviews in their first month; the range was 29 to 246.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Dungeon Crawler + Pixel Graphics + Rogue-lite; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 2 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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