How much revenue did Project Absentia make?

$11k–$28k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Project Absentia sell?

Q: How many copies did Project Absentia sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 77 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $11k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$43k before the cut; from 77 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 Project Absentia out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Project Absentia's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 55k–177k

best case 256k (Ion Fury)

Games like Project Absentia

The middle of these games

≈ 55k–177k copies

≈ $273k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ion Fury at ≈ 195k–317k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

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 127 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (7 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + FPS, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 3 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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Ion Fury 2019	Est. copies ≈ 195k–317k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before the cut	$24.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
Nightmare Reaper 2022	Est. copies ≈ 94k–153k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $645k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut	$24.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
Selaco 2024	Est. copies ≈ 126k–205k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $869k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before the cut	$24.99	5k reviews Very Positive	FPSShooter
Project Warlock II 2025	Est. copies ≈ 34k–55k	Est. revenue $157k–$422k after Steam's cut $285k–$649k before the cut	$16.99	1k reviews Very Positive	ActionIndie
Rise of the Triad 2013	Est. copies ≈ 161k–261k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $663k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut	$14.99	3k reviews Mixed	FPSAction
Super 3-D Noah's Ark 2015	Est. copies ≈ 44k–72k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $122k–$328k after Steam's cut $222k–$505k before the cut	$9.99	911 reviews Very Positive	FPSAction
Zortch 2023	Est. copies ≈ 34k–56k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $47k–$127k after Steam's cut $86k–$195k before the cut	$4.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSShooter
Beyond Citadel 2025	Est. copies ≈ 114k–185k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $470k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $854k–$1.9M before the cut	$14.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSFemale Protagonist