How much revenue did The PARADOGX Incident make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The PARADOGX Incident sell?

Q: How many copies did The PARADOGX Incident sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 42 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut; from 42 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 The PARADOGX Incident out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The PARADOGX Incident's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 962k–1.2M

best case 5.0M (Totally Accurate Battle Simulator)

Games like The PARADOGX Incident

The middle of these games

≈ 962k–1.2M copies

≈ $4.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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.

Best case: Totally Accurate Battle Simulator at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $20.9M–$56.2M 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 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 55 to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and FPS (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2026, and 1 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 52 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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