Released His Game on Steam: $18,766 Revenue in 3 Weeks

Drazglb is an indie game developer from France who launched this game on Steam back in October.

About a month later, he reported on Reddit that the game had sold 1252 units in the first 3 weeks.

From that…

I got a total [revenue] of $18,766.54

But after chargebacks, taxes, revenue share, exchange rate, etc…

the actual net revenue will probably be something like 9814€

Works out to about $10,214.

Drazglb says it was his first Steam game, but looks like the game was available in other formats since 2020.

As for marketing…

I did most of the job sharing stuff on Twitter, a bit on some Discord servers, and more recently here on Reddit since a few weeks before launch…

I also launched a successful Kickstarter campaign in November 2020, which helped a lot at the time.

€23,178 raised from that Kickstarter.

Goes to show that it’s possible to earn good money as an indie game developer.

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