How much revenue did CHROMA+ELEKTRON make?

$381–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CHROMA+ELEKTRON sell?

Q: How many copies did CHROMA+ELEKTRON sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $381–$1k after Steam's cut $693–$2k before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–67k

best case 199k (Lovely Planet)

Games like CHROMA+ELEKTRON

The middle of these games

≈ 44k–67k copies

≈ $44k–$333k after Steam's cut

from ~956 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Fast-Paced (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Lovely Planet at ≈ 152k–246k copies, ≈ $250k–$672k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fast-Paced (4 of 8) and Abstract (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Fast-Paced, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry FPS + Cute + Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2018, 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 38 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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