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How many copies did Venator Universe sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 719–1k
$987–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut
from 29 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.9M
best case 7.3M (The Elder Scrolls® Online)
Games like Venator Universe

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–2.9M copies

≈ $29.1M–$42.1M after Steam's cut

from ~40k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: The Elder Scrolls® Online at ≈ 5.6M–9.0M copies, ≈ $30.5M–$82.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 21k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on MMORPG (7 of 8) and Fantasy (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with MMORPG + Open World, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Singleplayer + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2021, and none of them 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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