How much revenue did Square Shooter make?

$163–$438 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Square Shooter sell?

Q: How many copies did Square Shooter sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $163–$438 after Steam's cut $297–$674 before the cut; from 12 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 Square Shooter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Square Shooter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 285–332k

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like Square Shooter

The middle of these games

≈ 285–332k copies

≈ $401–$5.9M after Steam's cut

from ~25 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 23 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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