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How big is Cyphers Game?

Estimated owners
≈ 16k–26k
from 650 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 Cyphers Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cyphers Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–22k
best case 2.0M (Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™)
Games like Cyphers Game

The middle of these games

≈ 14k–22k copies

≈ $62k–$86k after Steam's cut

from ~405 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $6.3M–$17.1M 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 116 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 29 to 789.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Historical (6 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Free to Play + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 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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2022
Est. copies
≈ 8k–14k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$23k–$62k after Steam's cut $42k–$95k before the cut
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338 reviews
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PuzzleWord Game
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Est. copies
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$14.99
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AtmosphericHistorical
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AtmosphericPuzzle
GET OUT!
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