How much revenue did PROXIMATE make?

$40k–$108k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PROXIMATE sell?

Q: How many copies did PROXIMATE sell?

24k to 40k copies, based on its 982 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–40k; $40k–$108k after Steam's cut $73k–$166k before the cut; from 982 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 PROXIMATE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PROXIMATE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–329k

best case 4.1M (INSIDE)

Games like PROXIMATE

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–329k copies

≈ $12k–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: INSIDE at ≈ 3.1M–5.1M copies, ≈ $21.6M–$58.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 43 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 4k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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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