How much revenue did Number 8 make?

$272–$731 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Number 8 sell?

Q: How many copies did Number 8 sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $272–$731 after Steam's cut $494–$1k before the cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Thin evidence: 8 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 Number 8 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Number 8's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–200k

best case 769k (Neon Abyss)

Games like Number 8

The middle of these games

≈ 27k–200k copies

≈ $136k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Neon Abyss at ≈ 586k–952k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 168 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 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 36 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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