How much revenue did Phantom Abyss make?

$305k–$821k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Phantom Abyss sell?

Q: How many copies did Phantom Abyss sell?

56k to 90k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 56k–90k; $305k–$821k after Steam's cut $555k–$1.3M 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 Phantom Abyss and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Phantom Abyss's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 391k–455k

best case 466k (Haste)

Games like Phantom Abyss

A typical game among these

≈ 391k–455k copies

≈ $2.4M–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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 Action Roguelike (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: Haste at ≈ 355k–577k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 159 reviews in their first month; the range was 40 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (4 of 8) and Action RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fast-Paced + Female Protagonist, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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