How much revenue did XIO: REVIVE make?

$920–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did XIO: REVIVE sell?

Q: How many copies did XIO: REVIVE sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $920–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 27 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 XIO: REVIVE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including XIO: REVIVE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 152k–396k

best case 1.2M (BlazBlue Entropy Effect)

Games like XIO: REVIVE

The middle of these games

≈ 152k–396k copies

≈ $1.2M–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Post-apocalyptic (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: BlazBlue Entropy Effect at ≈ 898k–1.5M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.3M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Post-apocalyptic (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Action-Adventure, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Action Roguelike + Action-Adventure + Replay Value; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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