How much revenue did Gunborg: Dark Matters make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gunborg: Dark Matters sell?

Q: How many copies did Gunborg: Dark Matters sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 75 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut; from 75 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 Gunborg: Dark Matters out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gunborg: Dark Matters's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k

best case 71k (Super Time Force Ultra)

Games like Gunborg: Dark Matters

The middle of these games

≈ 1k copies

≈ $2k–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~43 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: Super Time Force Ultra at ≈ 54k–88k copies, ≈ $223k–$601k 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 19 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12 to 540.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + 2D Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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 70 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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