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How many copies did Soulslinger sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 794–1k
$653–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut
from 32 reviews (Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 82–98
best case 944 (Virus Blast)
Games like Soulslinger

The middle of these games

≈ 82–98 copies

≈ $151–$195 after Steam's cut

from ~3 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Virus Blast at ≈ 719–1k copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 13 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 Runner (6 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Replay Value + Procedural Generation, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Racing; a typical game here doesn't.
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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