How much revenue did Acid Spy make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Acid Spy sell?

Q: How many copies did Acid Spy sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 172 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before Steam's cut; from 172 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 Acid Spy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Acid Spy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–7.1M

best case 31.8M (Dying Light)

Games like Acid Spy

A typical game among these

≈ 1.8M–7.1M copies

≈ $20.7M–$77.7M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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: Dying Light at ≈ 24.2M–39.3M copies, ≈ $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Stealth (6 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.4M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut $66.3M–$150.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	140k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person
Watch_Dogs™ 2014	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $16.5M–$44.3M after Steam's cut $30.0M–$68.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldHacking
Dying Light 2015	Est. copies ≈ 24.2M–39.3M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut $302.5M–$688.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	496k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
Thief 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.5M–$30.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	24k reviews Mostly Positive	StealthAction
Watch_Dogs® 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.3M–7.0M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $59.1M–$158.9M after Steam's cut $107.5M–$244.4M before Steam's cut	$49.99	103k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldHacking
Assassin's Creed® Syndicate 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.4M–$35.9M after Steam's cut $24.3M–$55.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	33k reviews Very Positive	AssassinOpen World
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.3M after Steam's cut $13.7M–$31.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	22k reviews Mostly Positive	StealthAction
DEATHLOOP 2021	Est. copies ≈ 756k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.5M–$33.5M after Steam's cut $22.7M–$51.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	30k reviews Mostly Positive	FPSAction