How much revenue did SteamVR Performance Test make?

SteamVR Performance Test is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did SteamVR Performance Test sell?

Q: How many copies did SteamVR Performance Test sell?

221k to 359k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 221k–359k; from 5k 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 SteamVR Performance Test out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SteamVR Performance Test's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 523k–2.3M

best case 4.7M (Soundpad)

Games like SteamVR Performance Test

The middle of these games

≈ 523k–2.3M copies

≈ $3.6M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Soundpad at ≈ 3.6M–5.8M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Software (8 of 8) and Utilities (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Utilities + Audio Production, priced around $5.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. 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 36 for the most recent game here to about 61 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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SteamVR unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.5M 5.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	86k reviews Very Positive	VRSoftware
VRMark 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $34k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$139k before the cut	$19.99	147 reviews Mixed	UtilitiesVR
Steam Link 2015	Est. copies ≈ 360k–584k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mostly Positive	Steam MachineSoftware
fpsVR 2018	Est. copies ≈ 72k–116k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $79k–$211k after Steam's cut $143k–$325k before the cut	$3.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndieVR
Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.8M 6.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before the cut	$4.99	104k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
3DMark unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 516k–839k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.6M before the cut	$29.99	21k reviews Very Positive	BenchmarkUtilities
CPUCores :: Maximize Your FPS 2015	Est. copies ≈ 557k–906k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.8M before the cut	$16.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	UtilitiesSoftware
OpenVR Benchmark 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	90 reviews Mostly Positive	UtilitiesBenchmark