How many copies did SYNTHETIK: Arena sell?

68k to 110k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did SYNTHETIK: Arena make?

SYNTHETIK: Arena is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is SYNTHETIK: Arena?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 68k–110k; 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 SYNTHETIK: Arena and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SYNTHETIK: Arena's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.0M

best case 2.7M (Battlerite)

Games like SYNTHETIK: Arena

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–2.0M copies

≈ $20.1M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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 Shooter (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: Battlerite at ≈ 2.0M–3.3M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 18k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (4 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MOBA + Competitive.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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