How much revenue did They Are Coming make?

$13k–$35k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did They Are Coming sell?

Q: How many copies did They Are Coming sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 633 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before the cut; from 633 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 They Are Coming out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including They Are Coming's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–3.7M

best case 12.3M (Deep Rock Galactic)

Games like They Are Coming

The middle of these games

≈ 3.1M–3.7M copies

≈ $24.2M–$36.1M after Steam's cut

from ~104k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Deep Rock Galactic at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $77.6M–$208.6M 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 63k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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