How much revenue did iso-Sphere make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did iso-Sphere sell?

Q: How many copies did iso-Sphere sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 27 reviews (Mixed)

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 iso-Sphere out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including iso-Sphere's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 669k–996k

best case 1.3M (Unpacking)

Games like iso-Sphere

The middle of these games

≈ 669k–996k copies

≈ $5.3M–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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 Puzzle (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: Unpacking at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 36 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 4k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (3 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 38 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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