How much revenue did Pixel: ru² make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pixel: ru² sell?

Q: How many copies did Pixel: ru² sell?

976 to 2k copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 976–2k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 20 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 Pixel: ru² out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel: ru²'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–31k

best case 23.1M (Half-Life 2)

Games like Pixel: ru²

The middle of these games

≈ 17k–31k copies

≈ $40k–$112k after Steam's cut

from ~534 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Puzzle (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: Half-Life 2 at ≈ 17.6M–28.6M copies, ≈ $48.3M–$130.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (4 of 8) and Classic (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Sci-fi, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry FPS + Action + Sci-fi; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2004 to 2021, 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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