How much revenue did Insect Swarm make?

$126k–$338k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Insect Swarm sell?

Q: How many copies did Insect Swarm sell?

65k to 106k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 65k–106k; $126k–$338k after Steam's cut $229k–$521k before the cut; from 3k 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 Insect Swarm out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Insect Swarm's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–39k

best case 125k (Sky Force Reloaded)

Games like Insect Swarm

The middle of these games

≈ 23k–39k copies

≈ $71k–$147k after Steam's cut

from ~616 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Sky Force Reloaded at ≈ 95k–154k copies, ≈ $261k–$702k 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 91 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 62 to 380.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shoot 'Em Up (7 of 8) and Bullet Hell (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shoot 'Em Up + Arcade, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Local Co-Op + Top-Down Shooter + Top-Down; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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