How much revenue did Exoracer make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Exoracer sell?

Q: How many copies did Exoracer sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 66 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 66 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 Exoracer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Exoracer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 233k–421k

best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Exoracer

The middle of these games

≈ 233k–421k copies

≈ $1.2M–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Precision Platformer (4 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Precision Platformer (4 of 8) and Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party + Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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