How much revenue did Orb of Aeternum make?

$920–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orb of Aeternum sell?

Q: How many copies did Orb of Aeternum sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $920–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 27 reviews (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 Orb of Aeternum out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Orb of Aeternum's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34k–289k

best case 845k (Dungeons 3)

Games like Orb of Aeternum

The middle of these games

≈ 34k–289k copies

≈ $137k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Dungeons 3 at ≈ 644k–1.0M copies, ≈ $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 395 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Villain Protagonist (7 of 8) and God Game (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Villain Protagonist + Base-Building, priced around $30.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 61 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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