How much revenue did Attempt[42] make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Attempt[42] sell?

Q: How many copies did Attempt[42] sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 371 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before the cut; from 371 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 Attempt[42] out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Attempt[42]'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 431k–6.6M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like Attempt[42]

The middle of these games

≈ 431k–6.6M copies

≈ $4.7M–$44.4M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2024, and 1 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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Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.4M–47.8M 26x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut $147.0M–$334.4M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Mirror's Edge™ 2009	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.0M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.7M–$36.7M after Steam's cut $24.8M–$56.5M before the cut	$19.99	39k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureParkour
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