How much revenue did Athanasy make?

$38k–$103k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Athanasy sell?

Q: How many copies did Athanasy sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 562 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $38k–$103k after Steam's cut $70k–$158k before the cut; from 562 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Athanasy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Athanasy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 216k–823k

best case 1.4M (Firework)

Games like Athanasy

The middle of these games

≈ 216k–823k copies

≈ $801k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Firework at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M 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 165 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle, priced around $10.
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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