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How many copies did The Indigo Parallel sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–11k
$25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before the cut
from 280 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 The Indigo Parallel out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Indigo Parallel's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 618k–1.3M
best case 1.5M (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader)
Games like The Indigo Parallel

The middle of these games

≈ 618k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.5M–$11.1M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $16.2M–$43.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 17k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Choices Matter (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Character Customization + Cinematic, priced around $50.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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 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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