How much revenue did Uplink make?

$508k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Uplink sell?

Q: How many copies did Uplink sell?

154k to 250k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 154k–250k; $508k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $923k–$2.1M before the cut; from 2k 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 Uplink out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Uplink's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 173k–619k

best case 1.7M (Hacknet)

Games like Uplink

The middle of these games

≈ 173k–619k copies

≈ $733k–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Hacknet at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $3.5M–$9.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 678 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 594 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Hacking (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hacking + Simulation, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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