How much revenue did Alt254 make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alt254 sell?

Q: How many copies did Alt254 sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 26 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 Alt254 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alt254's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–19k

best case 422k (Viewfinder)

Games like Alt254

The middle of these games

≈ 13k–19k copies

≈ $17k–$61k after Steam's cut

from ~440 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Viewfinder at ≈ 322k–523k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.9M 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 69 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 30 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Psychological + Abstract + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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