How much revenue did Help Will Come Tomorrow make?

$129k–$346k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Help Will Come Tomorrow sell?

Q: How many copies did Help Will Come Tomorrow sell?

23k to 38k copies, based on its 945 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–38k; $129k–$346k after Steam's cut $234k–$533k before Steam's cut; from 945 reviews (Very 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 Help Will Come Tomorrow and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Help Will Come Tomorrow's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–5.9M

best case 7.7M (Factorio)

Games like Help Will Come Tomorrow

A typical game among these

≈ 2.1M–5.9M copies

≈ $22.0M–$57.6M after Steam's cut

from ~77k 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: Factorio at ≈ 5.9M–9.5M copies, ≈ $56.4M–$151.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (6 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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Factorio 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.5M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $56.4M–$151.5M after Steam's cut $102.5M–$233.1M before Steam's cut	$35.00	236k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AutomationBase-Building
Frostpunk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut $62.8M–$142.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	138k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Survival
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Banished 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.3M–$35.9M after Steam's cut $24.3M–$55.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	43k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Colony Sim
Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.5M–$76.7M after Steam's cut $51.9M–$118.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
Jurassic World Evolution 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $20.8M–$55.9M after Steam's cut $37.8M–$86.1M before Steam's cut	$44.99	55k reviews Very Positive	BuildingDinosaurs
Forager 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.0M–$18.8M after Steam's cut $12.7M–$28.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	44k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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