How much revenue did Precursors make?

$16k–$44k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Precursors sell?

Q: How many copies did Precursors sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 115 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$67k before the cut; from 115 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 Precursors out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Precursors's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–8k

best case 39k (RIPOUT)

Games like Precursors

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–8k copies

≈ $3k–$54k after Steam's cut

from ~107 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: RIPOUT at ≈ 30k–49k copies, ≈ $165k–$444k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 33 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 980.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (8 of 8) and FPS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, 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 43 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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