How much revenue did Potionomics make?

$1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Potionomics sell?

Q: How many copies did Potionomics sell?

183k to 297k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 183k–297k; $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.2M before the cut; from 7k 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 Potionomics out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Potionomics's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 376k–745k

best case 2.3M (NBA 2K20)

Games like Potionomics

The middle of these games

≈ 376k–745k copies

≈ $1.4M–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (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: NBA 2K20 at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies. 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 66 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 8) and Deckbuilding (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Basketball + Sports. The breakout hits carry Basketball + Sports + Loot; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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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