How much revenue did Mission 1985 make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mission 1985 sell?

Q: How many copies did Mission 1985 sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before the cut; from 37 reviews (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 Mission 1985 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mission 1985's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 84k–263k

best case 658k (12 is Better Than 6)

Games like Mission 1985

The middle of these games

≈ 84k–263k copies

≈ $318k–$926k 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: 12 is Better Than 6 at ≈ 501k–814k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M 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 537 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (8 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + Western, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, 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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