How much revenue did Post Trauma make?

$70k–$188k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Post Trauma sell?

Q: How many copies did Post Trauma sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 683 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $70k–$188k after Steam's cut $127k–$289k before the cut; from 683 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 Post Trauma out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Post Trauma's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 271k–413k

best case 488k (Tails of Iron)

Games like Post Trauma

The middle of these games

≈ 271k–413k copies

≈ $3.2M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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 Action RPG (3 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: Tails of Iron at ≈ 372k–604k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (3 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Souls-like, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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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