How much revenue did Convoy make?

$295k–$792k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Convoy sell?

Q: How many copies did Convoy sell?

71k to 116k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 71k–116k; $295k–$792k after Steam's cut $536k–$1.2M before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly 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 Convoy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Convoy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 153k–302k

best case 417k (Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander)

Games like Convoy

The middle of these games

≈ 153k–302k copies

≈ $955k–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Exploration (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander at ≈ 318k–517k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 761 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (4 of 8) and Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sci-fi + Space, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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 43 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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