How much revenue did EndCycle VS make?

$4k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did EndCycle VS sell?

Q: How many copies did EndCycle VS sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 103 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $4k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 103 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 EndCycle VS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including EndCycle VS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–488k

best case 1.0M (觅长生)

Games like EndCycle VS

A typical game among these

≈ 60k–488k copies

≈ $562k–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Card Battler (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: 觅长生 at ≈ 797k–1.3M copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.8M 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 501 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (4 of 8) and Card Game (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Martial Arts, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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