How much revenue did 变量 Variables make?

$89k–$239k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 变量 Variables sell?

Q: How many copies did 变量 Variables sell?

29k to 48k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–48k; $89k–$239k after Steam's cut $162k–$368k before the cut; from 1k 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 变量 Variables out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 变量 Variables's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 124k–715k

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like 变量 Variables

The middle of these games

≈ 124k–715k copies

≈ $518k–$8.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Building (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: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 679 to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (3 of 8) and Open World Survival Craft (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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