How much revenue did When The Past Was Around make?

$242k–$650k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did When The Past Was Around sell?

Q: How many copies did When The Past Was Around sell?

110k to 179k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 110k–179k; $242k–$650k after Steam's cut $440k–$1.0M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 When The Past Was Around and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including When The Past Was Around's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 69k–177k

best case 1.3M (Unpacking)

Games like When The Past Was Around

A typical game among these

≈ 69k–177k copies

≈ $477k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Point & Click (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Unpacking at ≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.6M–$15.1M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 617 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Point & Click (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Cute + Casual + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
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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