How much revenue did Ants Took My Eyeball make?

$23k–$62k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ants Took My Eyeball sell?

Q: How many copies did Ants Took My Eyeball sell?

6k to 11k copies, based on its 261 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–11k; $23k–$62k after Steam's cut $42k–$96k before the cut; from 261 reviews (Very 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 Ants Took My Eyeball out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ants Took My Eyeball's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–33k

best case 1.3M (Lost Castle / 失落城堡)

Games like Ants Took My Eyeball

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–33k copies

≈ $19k–$150k after Steam's cut

from ~408 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Lost Castle / 失落城堡 at ≈ 996k–1.6M copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 152 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 326.

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 4 Player Local + Action Roguelike, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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