How much revenue did Purple Noise Echo make?

$478–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Purple Noise Echo sell?

Q: How many copies did Purple Noise Echo sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $478–$1k after Steam's cut $869–$2k before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 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 Purple Noise Echo out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Purple Noise Echo's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–148k

best case 421k (ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game)

Games like Purple Noise Echo

The middle of these games

≈ 19k–148k copies

≈ $127k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game at ≈ 320k–521k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with CRPG + Exploration, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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 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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