How much revenue did Vermitron make?

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

How many copies did Vermitron sell?

Q: How many copies did Vermitron sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 24 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 Vermitron out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vermitron's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–11k

best case 188k (X-Morph: Defense)

Games like Vermitron

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–11k copies

≈ $17k–$53k after Steam's cut

from ~202 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: X-Morph: Defense at ≈ 143k–233k copies, ≈ $788k–$2.1M 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 58 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 29 to 122.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8) and Tower Defense (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Strategy + Arena Shooter + Local Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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