How much revenue did Primate Signal make?

$512–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Primate Signal sell?

Q: How many copies did Primate Signal sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $512–$1k after Steam's cut $930–$2k before the cut; from 15 reviews (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 Primate Signal out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Primate Signal's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–62k

best case 408k (Coffee Talk)

Games like Primate Signal

The middle of these games

≈ 33k–62k copies

≈ $68k–$158k 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.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Coffee Talk at ≈ 311k–505k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M 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 132 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 67 to 621.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Philosophical (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Conversation + Visual Novel, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Relaxing + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Far from Noise 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before the cut	$7.99	202 reviews Very Positive	ConversationNarrative
DIVINATION 2019	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut	$1.99	207 reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelCyberpunk
Locke(d) 2023	Est. copies ≈ 28k–45k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Very Positive	PhilosophicalConversation
Subsurface Circular 2017	Est. copies ≈ 67k–109k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $110k–$296k after Steam's cut $200k–$455k before the cut	$5.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelInvestigation
Coffee Talk 2020	Est. copies ≈ 311k–505k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before the cut	$12.99	13k reviews Very Positive	ConversationPixel Graphics
Pro Philosopher 2: Governments & Grievances 2024	Est. copies ≈ 5k–9k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $17k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$72k before the cut	$11.99	212 reviews Very Positive	AdventureEducation
Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6k–11k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	262 reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelAnime
HOPE LEFT ME 2023	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $12k–$33k after Steam's cut $22k–$51k before the cut	$1.99	910 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelAtmospheric