How much revenue did Genopanic make?

$23k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Genopanic sell?

Q: How many copies did Genopanic sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 383 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $23k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$97k before the cut; from 383 reviews (Mostly 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 Genopanic out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Genopanic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 59k–204k

best case 336k (Afterimage)

Games like Genopanic

The middle of these games

≈ 59k–204k copies

≈ $488k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Afterimage at ≈ 256k–415k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 733 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 18 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Side Scroller (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Female Protagonist, priced around $25.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 38 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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