How much revenue did Sector Six make?

$18k–$48k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sector Six sell?

Q: How many copies did Sector Six sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 266 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $18k–$48k after Steam's cut $32k–$74k before the cut; from 266 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 Sector Six out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sector Six's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 903–253k

best case 56.1M (Warframe)

Games like Sector Six

The middle of these games

≈ 903–253k copies

≈ $2k–$74k after Steam's cut

from ~346 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Open World Survival Craft (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: Warframe at ≈ 42.7M–69.4M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 54 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 22k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World Survival Craft (4 of 8) and Survival (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 2 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 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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