How much revenue did Pixel Piracy make?

$1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pixel Piracy sell?

Q: How many copies did Pixel Piracy sell?

412k to 669k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 412k–669k; $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before the cut; from 7k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 423–62k

best case 1.9M (Skul: The Hero Slayer)

Games like Pixel Piracy

The middle of these games

≈ 423–62k copies

≈ $734–$236k after Steam's cut

from ~213 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Skul: The Hero Slayer at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$21.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 152 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 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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