How much revenue did Ouroboros make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ouroboros sell?

Q: How many copies did Ouroboros sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 155 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut; from 155 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 Ouroboros and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ouroboros's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 368–7k

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like Ouroboros

A typical game among these

≈ 368–7k copies

≈ $2k–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~15 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: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–14.0M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 138 reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Experimental (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Atmospheric + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 79 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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