How much revenue did Ouroboros make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ouroboros sell?

Q: How many copies did Ouroboros sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 154 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut; from 154 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 Ouroboros out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ouroboros's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 368–7k

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like Ouroboros

The middle of these games

≈ 368–7k copies

≈ $2k–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~15 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–13.9M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 138 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Experimental (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Atmospheric + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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