How much revenue did Submachine: Legacy make?

$249k–$669k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Submachine: Legacy sell?

Q: How many copies did Submachine: Legacy sell?

36k to 59k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 36k–59k; $249k–$669k after Steam's cut $452k–$1.0M before the cut; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Submachine: Legacy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Submachine: Legacy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 776k–1.5M

best case 1.5M (Sally Face - Episode One)

Games like Submachine: Legacy

The middle of these games

≈ 776k–1.5M copies

≈ $3.8M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sally Face - Episode One at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $959k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Point & Click (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Psychological Horror, priced around $3.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2022, 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 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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