How much revenue did The Complex make?

$364k–$978k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Complex sell?

Q: How many copies did The Complex sell?

88k to 143k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 88k–143k; $364k–$978k after Steam's cut $661k–$1.5M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 The Complex out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Complex's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 214k–328k

best case 1.7M (Quantum Break)

Games like The Complex

The middle of these games

≈ 214k–328k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Quantum Break at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $14.1M–$38.0M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choices Matter (6 of 8) and FMV (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Time Manipulation, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Action + Time Manipulation + Sci-fi; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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