How much revenue did Operencia: The Stolen Sun make?

$120k–$322k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Operencia: The Stolen Sun sell?

Q: How many copies did Operencia: The Stolen Sun sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 585 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $120k–$322k after Steam's cut $218k–$495k before Steam's cut; from 585 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 Operencia: The Stolen Sun and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Operencia: The Stolen Sun's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–875k

best case 5.4M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like Operencia: The Stolen Sun

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–875k copies

≈ $3.2M–$13.6M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Dungeon Crawler (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: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 68 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 114k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (4 of 8) and Party-Based RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 3 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
The Maze: Humanity 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	69 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAction
Cartridge Monsters 2021	Est. copies ≈ 620–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	25 reviews Positive	Creature CollectorPvE
The Backrooms: Mass Extinction 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	70 reviews Mixed	Adventure3D
Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $17k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$72k before Steam's cut	$19.99	128 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureRPG
Darkest Dungeon® II 2023	Est. copies ≈ 671k–1.1M 7.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Mostly Positive	Turn-Based Tactics Dungeon Crawler
Escape the Backrooms 2025	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 49x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut $20.7M–$47.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	167k reviews Very Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Wayfinder 2024	Est. copies ≈ 666k–1.1M 7.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.3M after Steam's cut $8.3M–$18.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	27k reviews Mixed	Action RPGOnline Co-Op
Legend of Grimrock 2012	Est. copies ≈ 426k–692k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG