How much revenue did The Phoenix Initiative make?

$491–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Phoenix Initiative sell?

Q: How many copies did The Phoenix Initiative sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $491–$1k after Steam's cut $893–$2k before the cut; from 12 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 838–11k

best case 30k (Section 13)

Games like The Phoenix Initiative

The middle of these games

≈ 838–11k copies

≈ $3k–$20k after Steam's cut

from ~79 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.

Best case: Section 13 at ≈ 23k–37k copies, ≈ $124k–$334k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 764 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 Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark + Top-Down Shooter, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 1 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 38 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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Keyboard Warrior: Dreamstate 2022	Est. copies ≈ 347–564 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $667–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut	$6.99	14 reviews Positive	Action RoguelikeArtificial Intelligence
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