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How many copies did OneShot sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2.7M–4.4M
$7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.6M before the cut
from 65k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–6.7M
best case 21.7M (Undertale)
Games like OneShot

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–6.7M copies

≈ $16.6M–$25.7M after Steam's cut

from ~80k 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 Story Rich (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: Undertale at ≈ 16.5M–26.8M copies, ≈ $45.3M–$121.9M 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 15k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 43k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (4 of 8) and Multiple Endings (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
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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SteamSpy 2M–5M
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≈ 2.2M–3.6M
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OMORI
2020
Est. copies
≈ 2.2M–3.6M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
Est. revenue
$12.0M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.8M before the cut
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Celeste
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≈ 4.4M–7.2M
1.8x vs typical
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$19.99
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≈ 4.0M–6.5M
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161k reviews
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Est. copies
≈ 16.5M–26.8M
4.2x vs typical
SteamSpy 5M–10M
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$9.99
338k reviews
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≈ 1.4M–2.3M
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$19.99
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$9.99
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