How much revenue did Sonar Shock make?

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

How many copies did Sonar Shock sell?

Q: How many copies did Sonar Shock sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 238 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$54k before the cut; from 238 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 Sonar Shock out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sonar Shock's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–784k

best case 1.1M (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon)

Games like Sonar Shock

The middle of these games

≈ 44k–784k copies

≈ $209k–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon at ≈ 869k–1.4M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 272 to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (6 of 8) and Cyberpunk (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Dark Fantasy, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 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 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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