How much revenue did Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) make?

$355k–$953k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) sell?

Q: How many copies did Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) sell?

258k to 420k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 258k–420k; $355k–$953k after Steam's cut $645k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 68k–142k

best case 196k (LOST EMBER)

Games like Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)

A typical game among these

≈ 68k–142k copies

≈ $515k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: LOST EMBER at ≈ 149k–243k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 536 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 836.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cozy (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Story Rich, priced around $30.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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