How much revenue did Game Cycle make?

$136–$365 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Game Cycle sell?

Q: How many copies did Game Cycle sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $136–$365 after Steam's cut $247–$562 before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Game Cycle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Game Cycle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–112k

best case 4.7M (Soundpad)

Games like Game Cycle

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–112k copies

≈ $2k–$107k after Steam's cut

from ~195 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Soundpad at ≈ 3.6M–5.8M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 3k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (6 of 8) and Software (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Utilities + Audio Production, priced around $5.
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 43 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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