How much revenue did The Game of Sisyphus make?

$41k–$110k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Game of Sisyphus sell?

Q: How many copies did The Game of Sisyphus sell?

21k to 35k copies, based on its 858 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–35k; $41k–$110k after Steam's cut $74k–$169k before the cut; from 858 reviews (Mostly 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 Game of Sisyphus out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Game of Sisyphus's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 103k–1.1M

best case 4.9M (Crab Game)

Games like The Game of Sisyphus

The middle of these games

≈ 103k–1.1M copies

≈ $187k–$1.1M 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.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 3D 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: Crab Game at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies.

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 75 to 77k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (4 of 8) and Parkour (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Battle Royale.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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