How much revenue did Absolver make?

$4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Absolver sell?

Q: How many copies did Absolver sell?

509k to 828k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 509k–828k; $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.4M before the cut; from 15k 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 Absolver out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Absolver's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 110k–2.4M

best case 5.8M (Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition)

Games like Absolver

The middle of these games

≈ 110k–2.4M copies

≈ $1.0M–$42.4M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.4M–$65.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 336 to 48k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Martial Arts (6 of 8) and Fighting (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Martial Arts, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 1 of your 7 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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