How much revenue did Paratopic make?

$92k–$247k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paratopic sell?

Q: How many copies did Paratopic sell?

67k to 109k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 67k–109k; $92k–$247k after Steam's cut $167k–$380k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Paratopic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paratopic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–3.8M

best case 4.1M (Buckshot Roulette)

Games like Paratopic

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–3.8M copies

≈ $5.1M–$18.4M after Steam's cut

from ~36k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Buckshot Roulette at ≈ 3.1M–5.1M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 163 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (5 of 8) and Psychological Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark + Gambling, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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LIMBO 2011	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.5M–$36.3M after Steam's cut $24.5M–$55.8M before Steam's cut	$12.49	62k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerIndie
Amnesia: The Dark Descent 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's cut $22.6M–$51.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	HorrorGore
OneShot 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$30.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	65k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichPixel Graphics
Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 712k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
Layers of Fear (2016) 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.3M–$17.1M after Steam's cut $11.5M–$26.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	28k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Buckshot Roulette 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.1M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.7M before Steam's cut	$2.99	127k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerDark
Mouthwashing 2024	Est. copies ≈ 0 too small to compare SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $0 after Steam's cut $0 before Steam's cut	$12.99	0 reviews No user reviews	Psychological Horror Story Rich
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk 2020	Est. copies ≈ 853k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $349k–$939k after Steam's cut $635k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$1.49	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual Novel Psychological Horror