How much revenue did Smile For Me make?

$308k–$827k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Smile For Me sell?

Q: How many copies did Smile For Me sell?

86k to 140k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 86k–140k; $308k–$827k after Steam's cut $559k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Smile For Me and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Smile For Me's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–5.5M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Smile For Me

A typical game among these

≈ 4.6M–5.5M copies

≈ $26.9M–$44.5M after Steam's cut

from ~143k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 64k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (7 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Platformer + Dark Humor + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2024, and 2 of the 8 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 79 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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