How much revenue did Discolored make?

$44k–$119k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Discolored sell?

Q: How many copies did Discolored sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 701 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $44k–$119k after Steam's cut $81k–$183k before the cut; from 701 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 Discolored out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Discolored's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–7.1M

best case 8.7M (It Takes Two)

Games like Discolored

The middle of these games

≈ 3.5M–7.1M copies

≈ $37.6M–$99.1M after Steam's cut

from ~131k 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: It Takes Two at ≈ 6.7M–10.8M copies, ≈ $73.2M–$196.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, and none of them 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 61 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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It Takes Two 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6.7M–10.8M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $73.2M–$196.7M after Steam's cut $133.0M–$302.7M before the cut	$39.99	268k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Outer Wilds 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $18.2M–$48.9M after Steam's cut $33.1M–$75.3M before the cut	$24.99	107k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ExplorationSpace
OneShot 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M 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
SOMA 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.1M–$56.7M after Steam's cut $38.4M–$87.3M before the cut	$29.99	52k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $53.2M–$143.0M after Steam's cut $96.7M–$220.1M before the cut	$29.99	155k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAction
Stray 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $36.3M–$97.6M after Steam's cut $66.0M–$150.1M before the cut	$29.99	177k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsAdventure
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $55.4M–$149.0M after Steam's cut $100.7M–$229.2M before the cut	$39.99	175k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureSouls-like
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.4M–$79.0M after Steam's cut $53.4M–$121.5M before the cut	$39.99	88k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAction