How much revenue did Children of Morta make?

$4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Children of Morta sell?

Q: How many copies did Children of Morta sell?

665k to 1.1M copies, based on its 23k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 665k–1.1M; $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut $7.3M–$16.6M before the cut; from 23k 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 Children of Morta out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Children of Morta's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–3.7M

best case 5.3M (DAVE THE DIVER)

Games like Children of Morta

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–3.7M copies

≈ $9.6M–$13.5M after Steam's cut

from ~48k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (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: DAVE THE DIVER at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $22.0M–$59.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11k to 43k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (4 of 8) and Rogue-like (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Exploration, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Management + Relaxing + Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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DAVE THE DIVER 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.0M–$59.2M after Steam's cut $40.0M–$91.0M before the cut	$19.99	161k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsCasual
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Hero Siege 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.8M–$15.7M after Steam's cut $10.6M–$24.1M before the cut	$7.99	47k reviews Mixed	Action RPGPixel Graphics
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before the cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
SANABI 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.3M after Steam's cut $8.3M–$19.0M before the cut	$14.99	45k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsStory Rich
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