How much revenue did Axiom of Maria: Prologue make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Axiom of Maria: Prologue sell?

Q: How many copies did Axiom of Maria: Prologue sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 75 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut; from 75 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 Axiom of Maria: Prologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Axiom of Maria: Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.3M

best case 31.7M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like Axiom of Maria: Prologue

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–2.3M copies

≈ $9.1M–$17.7M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: Cyberpunk 2077 at ≈ 24.2M–39.3M copies, ≈ $399.0M–$1072.8M 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 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Cyberpunk (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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