How much revenue did Pattern make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pattern sell?

Q: How many copies did Pattern sell?

843 to 1k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 843–1k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut; from 34 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Pattern out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pattern's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–34k

best case 232k (Proteus)

Games like Pattern

The middle of these games

≈ 12k–34k copies

≈ $69k–$136k after Steam's cut

from ~547 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Proteus at ≈ 177k–288k copies, ≈ $486k–$1.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 85 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 489.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Procedural Generation + First-Person, priced around $9. The breakout hits carry Walking Simulator + Procedural Generation + Snow; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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