How much revenue did The Outpost Nine: Episode 1 make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Outpost Nine: Episode 1 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Outpost Nine: Episode 1 sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 53 reviews (Mostly 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 The Outpost Nine: Episode 1 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Outpost Nine: Episode 1's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–6k

best case 31k (The Butterfly Collector)

Games like The Outpost Nine: Episode 1

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–6k copies

≈ $15k–$31k after Steam's cut

from ~124 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Butterfly Collector at ≈ 24k–38k copies, ≈ $6k–$17k 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 86 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 65 to 107.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Word Game, priced around $1. The breakout hits carry Word Game + Psychological Horror + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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