How much revenue did Black Trail VR make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Black Trail VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Black Trail VR sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before the cut; from 41 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 Black Trail VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Black Trail VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 259k–1.3M

best case 2.8M (SteamVR)

Games like Black Trail VR

The middle of these games

≈ 259k–1.3M copies

≈ $2.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: SteamVR at ≈ 2.1M–3.5M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (8 of 8) and VR (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Software.
The era: 4 of your 7 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 43 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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