How much revenue did FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays make?

$249k–$668k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays sell?

Q: How many copies did FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays sell?

70k to 113k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 70k–113k; $249k–$668k after Steam's cut $452k–$1.0M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–45k

best case 5.9M (Blender)

Games like FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–45k copies

≈ $157k–$443k after Steam's cut

from ~744 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Blender at ≈ 4.5M–7.3M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Game Development (7 of 8) and Utilities (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Software + Game Development, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Action + Indie + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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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