How much revenue did The Apocalypse Sacrifice make?

$17k–$45k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Apocalypse Sacrifice sell?

Q: How many copies did The Apocalypse Sacrifice sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 248 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $31k–$70k before the cut; from 248 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 The Apocalypse Sacrifice out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Apocalypse Sacrifice's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–3.0M

best case 6.6M (Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition)

Games like The Apocalypse Sacrifice

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–3.0M copies

≈ $11k–$5.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Arcade (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 58k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (3 of 8) and Automobile Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Automobile Sim.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2023, 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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