How much revenue did Slay or Fall make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Slay or Fall sell?

Q: How many copies did Slay or Fall sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 156 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before the cut; from 156 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 Slay or Fall out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Slay or Fall's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 914k–1.2M

best case 2.3M (Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation)

Games like Slay or Fall

The middle of these games

≈ 914k–1.2M copies

≈ $7.1M–$15.6M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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: Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $11.8M–$31.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 947 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Psychological Horror, priced around $25.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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