How much revenue did XO make?

$16k–$43k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did XO sell?

Q: How many copies did XO sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 101 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before the cut; from 101 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 XO out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including XO's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 45k–209k

best case 1.2M (Against the Storm)

Games like XO

The middle of these games

≈ 45k–209k copies

≈ $289k–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (3 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: Against the Storm at ≈ 926k–1.5M copies, ≈ $7.6M–$20.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 105 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (3 of 8) and Building (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2026, and 3 of your 8 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 52 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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We Are The Dwarves 2016	Est. copies ≈ 69k–112k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $284k–$765k after Steam's cut $517k–$1.2M before the cut	$14.99	2k reviews Mixed	IndieAdventure
The Wandering Village 2025	Est. copies ≈ 209k–340k 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.1M before the cut	$29.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessBuilding
Deadly Days 2019	Est. copies ≈ 55k–90k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $182k–$488k after Steam's cut $330k–$751k before the cut	$11.99	2k reviews Very Positive	IndieAction
No Plan B 2024	Est. copies ≈ 20k–33k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $83k–$223k after Steam's cut $151k–$343k before the cut	$14.99	810 reviews Very Positive	StrategyIndie
Winter Falling: Battle Tactics 2022	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $49k–$132k after Steam's cut $90k–$204k before the cut	$14.99	482 reviews Very Positive	Turn-BasedSingleplayer
Abandon Ship 2019	Est. copies ≈ 39k–63k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $268k–$720k after Steam's cut $487k–$1.1M before the cut	$24.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	PiratesRogue-lite
Xenonauts 2 2026	Est. copies ≈ 142k–231k 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.5M before the cut	$39.99	6k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
Against the Storm 2023	Est. copies ≈ 926k–1.5M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.6M–$20.5M after Steam's cut $13.9M–$31.6M before the cut	$29.99	37k reviews Very Positive	StrategyCity Builder