How much revenue did The Arena Guy make?

$81–$218 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Arena Guy sell?

Q: How many copies did The Arena Guy sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $81–$218 after Steam's cut $148–$335 before the cut; from 12 reviews (Mixed)

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 The Arena Guy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Arena Guy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–11k

best case 19k (X Invader)

Games like The Arena Guy

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–11k copies

≈ $8k–$30k after Steam's cut

from ~228 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: X Invader at ≈ 14k–23k copies, ≈ $20k–$53k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 89 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 29 to 492.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-lite (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shoot 'Em Up + Arena Shooter, priced around $5.
The era: 6 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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