How much revenue did Door Kickers: Action Squad make?

$1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Door Kickers: Action Squad sell?

Q: How many copies did Door Kickers: Action Squad sell?

322k to 523k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322k–523k; $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.1M 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.

Does this actually work?

We left Door Kickers: Action Squad out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Door Kickers: Action Squad's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 149k–265k

best case 277k (Astral Ascent)

Games like Door Kickers: Action Squad

The middle of these games

≈ 149k–265k copies

≈ $838k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Astral Ascent at ≈ 211k–343k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$3.9M 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 683 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 401 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (5 of 8) and Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Hack and Slash + Indie + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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