How much revenue did Acolyte make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Acolyte sell?

Q: How many copies did Acolyte sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 64 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut; from 64 reviews (Mostly 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 Acolyte out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Acolyte's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 513–708

best case 122k (AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative)

Games like Acolyte

The middle of these games

≈ 513–708 copies

≈ $2k after Steam's cut

from ~18 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative at ≈ 93k–152k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M 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 65 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (6 of 8) and Artificial Intelligence (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Detective + Futuristic + Mystery; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 5 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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