How much revenue did Altered make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Altered sell?

Q: How many copies did Altered sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 127 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before Steam's cut; from 127 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 Altered and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Altered's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–4k

best case 935k (Baba Is You)

Games like Altered

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–4k copies

≈ $6k–$25k after Steam's cut

from ~60 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: Baba Is You at ≈ 712k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 39 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 94.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Sokoban (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build 2015	Est. copies ≈ 58k–95k 20x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $241k–$647k after Steam's cut $438k–$996k before Steam's cut	$14.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CutePuzzle
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Syzygy 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	44 reviews Positive	PuzzleSokoban
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