How much revenue did Vaporum make?

$201k–$541k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vaporum sell?

Q: How many copies did Vaporum sell?

37k to 59k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 37k–59k; $201k–$541k after Steam's cut $366k–$832k before the cut; from 1k 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 Vaporum out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vaporum's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–374k

best case 380k (FlyKnight)

Games like Vaporum

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–374k copies

≈ $10k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FlyKnight at ≈ 289k–470k copies, ≈ $476k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 573 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and CRPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + First-Person, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, 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 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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Legend of Grimrock 2012	Est. copies ≈ 425k–691k 6.3x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before the cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
FlyKnight 2025	Est. copies ≈ 289k–470k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $476k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $866k–$2.0M before the cut	$5.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Dungeon CrawlerFirst-Person
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord 2024	Est. copies ≈ 31k–50k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $296k–$796k after Steam's cut $538k–$1.2M before the cut	$34.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Dungeon Crawler CRPG
Dungeon Scavenger 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before the cut	$7.99	113 reviews Very Positive	ExplorationTactical RPG
StarCrawlers 2017	Est. copies ≈ 31k–50k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $170k–$457k after Steam's cut $309k–$703k before the cut	$19.99	899 reviews Very Positive	RPGDungeon Crawler
Depths of Faveg 2024	Est. copies ≈ 694–1k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut	$4.99	28 reviews Positive	Class-BasedTurn-Based Combat
Burial Stone 2022	Est. copies ≈ 422–685 SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut	$9.99	17 reviews Positive	CRPGTactical RPG
Lunacid 2023	Est. copies ≈ 284k–461k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before the cut	$13.99	11k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerDark Fantasy