How much revenue did Complex Loop make?

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

How many copies did Complex Loop sell?

Q: How many copies did Complex Loop sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 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–$20k before the cut; from 72 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 Complex Loop out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Complex Loop's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–17k

best case 62k (Critters for Sale)

Games like Complex Loop

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–17k copies

≈ $24k–$92k after Steam's cut

from ~346 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Critters for Sale at ≈ 47k–77k copies, ≈ $129k–$348k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 69 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 325.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Surreal + Gore, priced around $10.
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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