How much revenue did AIdventure make?

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

How many copies did AIdventure sell?

Q: How many copies did AIdventure sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 56 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut; from 56 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 149k–258k

best case 341k (Citizen Sleeper)

Games like AIdventure

The middle of these games

≈ 149k–258k copies

≈ $1.0M–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Choose Your Own Adventure (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: Citizen Sleeper at ≈ 260k–423k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 211 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 75 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8) and Multiple Endings (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dice + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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