How much revenue did The Longest Road on Earth make?

$44k–$119k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Longest Road on Earth sell?

Q: How many copies did The Longest Road on Earth sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 652 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $44k–$119k after Steam's cut $81k–$184k before Steam's cut; from 652 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 The Longest Road on Earth and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Longest Road on Earth's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–1.3M

best case 3.8M (Mirror 2: Project X)

Games like The Longest Road on Earth

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–1.3M copies

≈ $12k–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Mirror 2: Project X at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 272 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Match 3 + Anime, priced around $2.
When they shipped: Only 3 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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