How much revenue did Synth Retro Vapor Wave make?

$432–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Synth Retro Vapor Wave sell?

Q: How many copies did Synth Retro Vapor Wave sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 64 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $432–$1k after Steam's cut $786–$2k before the cut; from 64 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 Synth Retro Vapor Wave out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Synth Retro Vapor Wave's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 117k–399k

best case 10.6M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Synth Retro Vapor Wave

The middle of these games

≈ 117k–399k copies

≈ $375k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.1M copies, ≈ $22.2M–$59.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 196 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 1980s (5 of 8) and Old School (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Top-Down, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Violent + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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