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I'm curious if anyone can provide insight as to what the profits of a moderately successful game would be. Let's say they've spent $600-700k over the past three years. Is there any possibility of them saving their homes without the game becoming a massive success?

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The hope is of course that the game becomes a massive success - to get into the top 15% of games on steam you only need to sell $50k: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-06-26-introversio...

To recoup $600k and then make another $600k in net profit (to be able to finance the next game, remember valve's 30% fee & taxes) will require it to basically be a huge hit in indie-terms.

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