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How many copies did ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 320k–521k
$1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before the cut
from 11k reviews (Very 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 ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 156k–411k
best case 1.4M (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition)
Games like ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

The middle of these games

≈ 156k–411k copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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 Turn-Based Combat (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: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.0M–$16.1M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 22k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Turn-Based Combat (4 of 8) and CRPG (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action RPG + Third Person, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2026, and 3 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 70 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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