How much revenue did Paratopic make?

$100k–$268k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paratopic sell?

Q: How many copies did Paratopic sell?

66k to 107k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 66k–107k; $100k–$268k after Steam's cut $181k–$413k before the cut; from 2k 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 Paratopic out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paratopic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–3.2M

best case 4.1M (Buckshot Roulette)

Games like Paratopic

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–3.2M copies

≈ $5.8M–$18.2M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: Buckshot Roulette at ≈ 3.1M–5.0M copies, ≈ $2.5M–$6.8M 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 165 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (5 of 8) and Psychological Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark + Gambling, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Gambling + Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, 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 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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.4M–$33.3M after Steam's cut $22.5M–$51.2M before the cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	HorrorGore
OneShot 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.6M before the cut	$9.99	65k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichPixel Graphics
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Buckshot Roulette 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.0M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.5M before the cut	$2.99	125k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerDark
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