How much revenue did The Callisto Protocol™ make?

$17.8M–$48.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Callisto Protocol™ sell?

Q: How many copies did The Callisto Protocol™ sell?

1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 44k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; $17.8M–$48.0M after Steam's cut $32.4M–$73.8M before the cut; from 44k reviews (Mixed)

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 The Callisto Protocol™ out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including The Callisto Protocol™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.4M–15.5M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like The Callisto Protocol™

The middle of these games

≈ 10.4M–15.5M copies

≈ $52.2M–$113.8M after Steam's cut

from ~300k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (3 of 4) and Horror (3 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of your 4 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 52 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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DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.6M–$136.0M after Steam's cut $92.0M–$209.3M before the cut	$19.99	221k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Lethal Company 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12.7M–20.6M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.8M–$93.5M after Steam's cut $63.2M–$143.9M before the cut	$9.99	511k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Online Co-OpHorror
Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.5M–18.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.0M–$255.4M after Steam's cut $172.7M–$393.0M before the cut	$29.99	379k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Content Warning 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$23.8M after Steam's cut $16.1M–$36.7M before the cut	$7.99	163k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpHorror