How much revenue did Xion make?

$5k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Xion sell?

Q: How many copies did Xion sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut; from 54 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 Xion out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Xion's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–41k

best case 57k (Ancient Dungeon)

Games like Xion

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–41k copies

≈ $92k–$315k after Steam's cut

from ~565 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ancient Dungeon at ≈ 43k–70k copies, ≈ $238k–$641k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 272 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 108 to 393.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (8 of 8) and Voxel (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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Kodon 2023	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $67k–$180k after Steam's cut $122k–$277k before the cut	$24.99	393 reviews Mixed	SimulationAnimation & Modeling
Voxel Project VR 2025	Est. copies ≈ 8k–14k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $58k–$156k after Steam's cut $105k–$240k before the cut	$24.99	340 reviews Very Positive	DestructionVR
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