How much revenue did PROJECT 13 Perception Test make?

$816–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PROJECT 13 Perception Test sell?

Q: How many copies did PROJECT 13 Perception Test sell?

744 to 1k copies, based on its 30 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 744–1k; $816–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 30 reviews (Mixed)

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 PROJECT 13 Perception Test out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PROJECT 13 Perception Test's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 619k–1.7M

best case 4.4M (House Flipper)

Games like PROJECT 13 Perception Test

The middle of these games

≈ 619k–1.7M copies

≈ $1.5M–$13.9M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: House Flipper at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $23.3M–$62.6M after Steam's cut.

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 693 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Immersive Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Design & Illustration, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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