How much revenue did Guardians of the Ashes make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Guardians of the Ashes sell?

Q: How many copies did Guardians of the Ashes sell?

11k to 19k copies, based on its 463 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–19k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before the cut; from 463 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 Guardians of the Ashes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Guardians of the Ashes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–6.1M

best case 8.6M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Guardians of the Ashes

The middle of these games

≈ 4.1M–6.1M copies

≈ $9.5M–$19.6M after Steam's cut

from ~76k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 282 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12 to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Bullet Hell (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 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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Enter the Gungeon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.4M after Steam's cut $28.0M–$63.6M before the cut	$14.99	90k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Bullet HellAction Roguelike
Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's cut $16.4M–$37.3M before the cut	$4.99	265k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
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