How much revenue did Before Your Eyes make?

$1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Before Your Eyes sell?

Q: How many copies did Before Your Eyes sell?

595k to 968k copies, based on its 24k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595k–968k; $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.8M before Steam's cut; from 24k 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 Before Your Eyes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Before Your Eyes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 330k–795k

best case 1.6M (Sally Face - Episode One)

Games like Before Your Eyes

A typical game among these

≈ 330k–795k copies

≈ $1.8M–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Sally Face - Episode One at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 660 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Psychological Horror, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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Sally Face - Episode One 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before Steam's cut	$2.99	30k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story Rich Psychological Horror
Impostor Factory 2021	Est. copies ≈ 319k–519k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $877k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichEmotional
Life is Strange: Double Exposure 2024	Est. copies ≈ 268k–435k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.2M before Steam's cut	$49.99	11k reviews Mixed	Choices MatterLGBTQ+
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