How much revenue did Fossilfuel make?

$17k–$45k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fossilfuel sell?

Q: How many copies did Fossilfuel sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 164 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $30k–$69k before the cut; from 164 reviews (Mostly 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 Fossilfuel out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fossilfuel's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–2.4M

best case 34.7M (Apex Legends™)

Games like Fossilfuel

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–2.4M copies

≈ $18.5M–$25.2M after Steam's cut

from ~37k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Apex Legends™ at ≈ 26.4M–43.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 76k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cyberpunk (5 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + FPS. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Battle Royale + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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