How much revenue did ASCIILL make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ASCIILL sell?

Q: How many copies did ASCIILL sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 63 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before the cut; from 63 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 ASCIILL out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ASCIILL's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 88k–414k

best case 1.2M (Stoneshard)

Games like ASCIILL

The middle of these games

≈ 88k–414k copies

≈ $493k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Stoneshard at ≈ 880k–1.4M copies, ≈ $6.0M–$16.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 934 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (6 of 8) and Turn-Based (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like, priced around $32. The breakout hits carry Dark Fantasy + Lovecraftian + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 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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