How much revenue did Othercide make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Othercide sell?

Q: How many copies did Othercide sell?

132k to 214k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 132k–214k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Othercide and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Othercide's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 236k–330k

best case 322k (TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children)

Games like Othercide

A typical game among these

≈ 236k–330k copies

≈ $2.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children at ≈ 246k–399k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (6 of 8) and Tactical RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with CRPG + Tactical RPG, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, 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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Black Book 2021	Est. copies ≈ 168k–272k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Card BattlerTurn-Based Tactics
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