How much revenue did OUTLIER make?

OUTLIER is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did OUTLIER sell?

Q: How many copies did OUTLIER sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 73 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; from 73 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 OUTLIER out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including OUTLIER's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–162k

best case 517k (EVERSPACE™)

Games like OUTLIER

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–162k copies

≈ $176k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~807 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: EVERSPACE™ at ≈ 394k–641k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action Roguelike, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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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