How much revenue did Putinist Slayer make?

$5k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Putinist Slayer sell?

Q: How many copies did Putinist Slayer sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 67 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut; from 67 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 Putinist Slayer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Putinist Slayer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 865k–2.4M

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like Putinist Slayer

The middle of these games

≈ 865k–2.4M copies

≈ $4.9M–$18.5M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Rogue-lite (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: Dead Cells at ≈ 5.6M–9.0M copies, ≈ $38.2M–$102.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-lite (4 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Metroidvania, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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