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How many copies did Book of Travels sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 54k–88k
$74k–$199k after Steam's cut $134k–$306k before Steam's cut
from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Book of Travels and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Book of Travels's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–258k
best case 426k (Lunch Lady)
Games like Book of Travels

A typical game among these

≈ 18k–258k copies

≈ $74k–$651k 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Lunch Lady at ≈ 324k–527k copies, ≈ $445k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 102 reviews in their first month; the range was 26 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Walking Simulator (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Co-op, priced around $5.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 3 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 52 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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