How much revenue did Pest Apocalypse make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pest Apocalypse sell?

Q: How many copies did Pest Apocalypse sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 77 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before the cut; from 77 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 Pest Apocalypse out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pest Apocalypse's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–22k

best case 78k (Geometry Arena)

Games like Pest Apocalypse

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–22k copies

≈ $11k–$86k after Steam's cut

from ~276 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: Geometry Arena at ≈ 60k–97k copies, ≈ $98k–$265k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 295 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 49 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Bullet Hell (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + Bullet Hell, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 52 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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