How much revenue did Project Malice make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Project Malice sell?

Q: How many copies did Project Malice sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 69 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$19k before the cut; from 69 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 Project Malice out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Project Malice's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 371k–969k

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like Project Malice

The middle of these games

≈ 371k–969k copies

≈ $2.6M–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~17k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 409 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, 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 61 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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