How much revenue did Projectile Dysfunction make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Projectile Dysfunction sell?

Q: How many copies did Projectile Dysfunction sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before the cut; from 50 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 Projectile Dysfunction out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Projectile Dysfunction's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 748k–920k

best case 23.1M (Half-Life 2)

Games like Projectile Dysfunction

The middle of these games

≈ 748k–920k copies

≈ $4.4M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Half-Life 2 at ≈ 17.6M–28.6M copies, ≈ $48.3M–$130.0M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 962 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Action + War; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2004 to 2026, 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 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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