How many copies did Virus Blast sell?

719 to 1k copies, based on its 29 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Virus Blast make?

Virus Blast is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Virus Blast?

Estimated owners: ≈ 719–1k; from 29 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 Virus Blast out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Virus Blast's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 248k–544k

best case 722k (Dome Keeper)

Games like Virus Blast

The middle of these games

≈ 248k–544k copies

≈ $2.9M–$5.3M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Arcade (3 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: Dome Keeper at ≈ 550k–893k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 475 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 105 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (3 of 8) and Physics (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Post-apocalyptic + Rogue-like, priced around $18.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2026, 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 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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