How much revenue did Splatter make?

$18k–$47k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Splatter sell?

Q: How many copies did Splatter sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 172 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $18k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$73k before the cut; from 172 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 Splatter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Splatter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–310k

best case 808k (Cruelty Squad)

Games like Splatter

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–310k copies

≈ $63k–$597k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cruelty Squad at ≈ 616k–1.0M copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 511 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Capitalism + Surreal, priced around $20.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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