How much revenue did PSYCRON make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PSYCRON sell?

Q: How many copies did PSYCRON sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 113 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before the cut; from 113 reviews (Very 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 PSYCRON out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PSYCRON's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.6M–10.8M

best case 22.6M (No Man's Sky)

Games like PSYCRON

The middle of these games

≈ 6.6M–10.8M copies

≈ $53.1M–$207.7M after Steam's cut

from ~175k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.2M–28.0M copies, ≈ $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 63 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 37 to 10k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and Sci-fi (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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