How much revenue did Aztech Forgotten Gods make?

$16k–$43k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aztech Forgotten Gods sell?

Q: How many copies did Aztech Forgotten Gods sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 78 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before the cut; from 78 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 Aztech Forgotten Gods out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aztech Forgotten Gods's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–66k

best case 233k (Hot Lava)

Games like Aztech Forgotten Gods

The middle of these games

≈ 23k–66k copies

≈ $14k–$280k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hot Lava at ≈ 177k–288k copies, ≈ $975k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 176 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42 to 511.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and 3D Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + 3D Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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