How much revenue did Vellum make?

$197k–$529k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vellum sell?

Q: How many copies did Vellum sell?

36k to 58k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 36k–58k; $197k–$529k after Steam's cut $358k–$814k before the cut; from 1k 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 Vellum out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vellum's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–25k

best case 78k (What the Fog)

Games like Vellum

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–25k copies

≈ $9k–$105k after Steam's cut

from ~207 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: What the Fog at ≈ 59k–96k copies, ≈ $81k–$218k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 83 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + Co-op, priced around $5.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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