How much revenue did 1 Trait Escape make?

$14k–$39k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 1 Trait Escape sell?

Q: How many copies did 1 Trait Escape sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 211 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $14k–$39k after Steam's cut $26k–$59k before the cut; from 211 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 1 Trait Escape out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 1 Trait Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–36k

best case 252k (Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel)

Games like 1 Trait Escape

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–36k copies

≈ $18k–$176k after Steam's cut

from ~331 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel at ≈ 192k–312k copies, ≈ $791k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 272 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 65 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Bullet Hell (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $15.
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 52 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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