How much revenue did Etherborn make?

$61k–$164k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Etherborn sell?

Q: How many copies did Etherborn sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 452 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $61k–$164k after Steam's cut $111k–$252k before the cut; from 452 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Etherborn out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Etherborn's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14.9M–30.5M

best case 40.5M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Etherborn

The middle of these games

≈ 14.9M–30.5M copies

≈ $88.0M–$178.2M after Steam's cut

from ~488k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Anime (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.9M–50.1M copies, ≈ $42.3M–$113.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (2 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2020, 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 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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Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.9M–50.1M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.3M–$113.8M after Steam's cut $77.0M–$175.1M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Doki Doki Literature Club! 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.8M–12.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	228k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Visual Novel
No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.3M–28.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $285.6M–$767.9M after Steam's cut $519.3M–$1181.5M before the cut	$59.99	416k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldOpen World Survival Craft
Bloons TD 6 2018	Est. copies ≈ 12.0M–19.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $46.2M–$124.2M after Steam's cut $84.0M–$191.0M before the cut	$13.99	395k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 35.9M–58.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.3M–$132.5M after Steam's cut $89.6M–$203.8M before the cut	$4.99	641k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
Deep Rock Galactic 2020	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $77.7M–$208.8M after Steam's cut $141.2M–$321.2M before the cut	$29.99	380k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DwarfCo-op
Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.3M–31.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $79.5M–$213.7M after Steam's cut $144.5M–$328.8M before the cut	$14.99	561k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival