How much revenue did Atom make?

$229–$617 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Atom sell?

Q: How many copies did Atom sell?

843 to 1k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 843–1k; $229–$617 after Steam's cut $417–$949 before the cut; from 34 reviews (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 Atom out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Atom's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 48k–137k

best case 703k (Townscaper)

Games like Atom

The middle of these games

≈ 48k–137k copies

≈ $309k–$901k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: Townscaper at ≈ 536k–871k copies, ≈ $883k–$2.4M 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 947 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 411 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Experimental + Building, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry City Builder + Short + Experimental; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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 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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