How much revenue did Cycle 28 make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cycle 28 sell?

Q: How many copies did Cycle 28 sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 59 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut; from 59 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 Cycle 28 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cycle 28's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 95k–204k

best case 870k (Soulstone Survivors)

Games like Cycle 28

The middle of these games

≈ 95k–204k copies

≈ $576k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Soulstone Survivors at ≈ 663k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.3M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 780 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (8 of 8) and Twin Stick Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Early Access + Action RPG + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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