How much revenue did Primal Light make?

$23k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Primal Light sell?

Q: How many copies did Primal Light sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 427 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $23k–$63k after Steam's cut $42k–$96k before the cut; from 427 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 Primal Light out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Primal Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 114k–424k

best case 1.5M (SANABI)

Games like Primal Light

The middle of these games

≈ 114k–424k copies

≈ $766k–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: SANABI at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (5 of 8) and Metroidvania (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Cyberpunk, priced around $15.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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