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How many copies did Army of Numbers sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–4k
$1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut
from 89 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 Army of Numbers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Army of Numbers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–14k
best case 606k (LYNE)
Games like Army of Numbers

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–14k copies

≈ $8k–$42k after Steam's cut

from ~266 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: LYNE at ≈ 462k–750k copies, ≈ $380k–$1.0M 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 35 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 120.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Arcade (6 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $4. The breakout hits carry Casual + Procedural Generation + Experimental; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2021, 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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2014
Est. copies
≈ 462k–750k
31x vs typical
SteamSpy 200k–500k
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$380k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $690k–$1.6M before the cut
$2.99
8k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
PuzzleLogic
Progressbar95
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2019
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≈ 9k–15k
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$26k–$70k after Steam's cut $47k–$107k before the cut
$9.99
328 reviews
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