How much revenue did Ascending Inferno make?

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

How many copies did Ascending Inferno sell?

Q: How many copies did Ascending Inferno sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 64 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 64 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 Ascending Inferno out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ascending Inferno's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–94k

best case 779k (Thomas Was Alone)

Games like Ascending Inferno

The middle of these games

≈ 25k–94k copies

≈ $74k–$271k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Thomas Was Alone at ≈ 593k–964k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 511 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 289 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Narration, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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 79 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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