How much revenue did The Test make?

$273k–$734k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Test sell?

Q: How many copies did The Test sell?

499k to 811k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 499k–811k; $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $497k–$1.1M before the cut; from 20k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Test out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Test's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.5M

best case 1.9M (NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD)

Games like The Test

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–1.5M copies

≈ $5.7M–$11.2M after Steam's cut

from ~34k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Multiple Endings (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $6.3M–$16.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Multiple Endings (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Anime, priced around $16.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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