How many copies did vApe Escape sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 133 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did vApe Escape make?

vApe Escape is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is vApe Escape?

Estimated owners: ≈ 4k–6k; from 133 reviews (Very Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–91k

best case 205k (Void Bastards)

Games like vApe Escape

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–91k copies

≈ $46k–$690k after Steam's cut

from ~311 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Space (3 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: Void Bastards at ≈ 156k–254k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 87 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 68 to 148.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (3 of 8) and 2D Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Action Roguelike, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 3 of your 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 43 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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KUUKIYOMI: Consider It! ONLINE 2022	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $20k–$55k after Steam's cut $37k–$84k before the cut	$8.99	333 reviews Mixed	MultiplayerOnline Co-Op
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