How much revenue did Abnormal1999:Sector 49 make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Abnormal1999:Sector 49 sell?

Q: How many copies did Abnormal1999:Sector 49 sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 134 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 134 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 Abnormal1999:Sector 49 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Abnormal1999:Sector 49's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 419k–746k

best case 434k (The Talos Principle 2)

Games like Abnormal1999:Sector 49

The middle of these games

≈ 419k–746k copies

≈ $3.9M–$5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: The Talos Principle 2 at ≈ 331k–538k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 34 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 5k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Walking Simulator (8 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 79 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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