How much revenue did ORX make?

$93k–$250k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ORX sell?

Q: How many copies did ORX sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 681 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $93k–$250k after Steam's cut $169k–$384k before the cut; from 681 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 993–10k

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like ORX

The middle of these games

≈ 993–10k copies

≈ $4k–$46k after Steam's cut

from ~100 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 60 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 327k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (5 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Zombies + Multiplayer + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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