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How many copies did Pixel Gun Master sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 174–282
$478–$1k after Steam's cut $869–$2k before the cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 7 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.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–7.0M
best case 11.4M (Risk of Rain 2)
Games like Pixel Gun Master

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–7.0M copies

≈ $8.1M–$71.5M after Steam's cut

from ~47k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $59.9M–$161.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 466 to 103k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Hack and Slash (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 2 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 70 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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