How much revenue did Eschaton make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Eschaton sell?

Q: How many copies did Eschaton sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 168 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 168 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 Eschaton out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Eschaton's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 228–236

best case 122k (AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative)

Games like Eschaton

The middle of these games

≈ 228–236 copies

≈ $373–$547 after Steam's cut

from ~7 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Mystery (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: AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative at ≈ 93k–152k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M 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 4 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mystery (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mystery, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Mystery + Investigation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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