How much revenue did Phantom Abyss make?

$305k–$820k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Phantom Abyss sell?

Q: How many copies did Phantom Abyss sell?

56k to 90k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 56k–90k; $305k–$820k after Steam's cut $555k–$1.3M before the cut; from 2k 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 Phantom Abyss out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Phantom Abyss's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 391k–450k

best case 456k (Haste)

Games like Phantom Abyss

The middle of these games

≈ 391k–450k copies

≈ $2.4M–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Haste at ≈ 347k–564k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 159 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 40 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (4 of 8) and Action RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fast-Paced + Female Protagonist, priced around $20.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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