How much revenue did First Odium make?

$191–$512 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did First Odium sell?

Q: How many copies did First Odium sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $191–$512 after Steam's cut $347–$788 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.

Does this actually work?

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 265k–1.0M

best case 8.8M (Darkest Dungeon®)

Games like First Odium

The middle of these games

≈ 265k–1.0M copies

≈ $3.0M–$12.3M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Darkest Dungeon® at ≈ 6.7M–10.9M copies, ≈ $46.2M–$124.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (5 of 8) and Dark Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Dark Fantasy, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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