How much revenue did 4 The Elements make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 4 The Elements sell?

Q: How many copies did 4 The Elements sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 32 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 4 The Elements out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 4 The Elements's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 280k–1.4M

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like 4 The Elements

The middle of these games

≈ 280k–1.4M copies

≈ $1.8M–$9.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: 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 7 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 Platformer (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Metroidvania, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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Dead Cells 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.0M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $38.2M–$102.8M after Steam's cut $69.5M–$158.2M before the cut	$24.99	183k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction Roguelike
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