How much revenue did Somber Echoes make?

$36k–$96k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Somber Echoes sell?

Q: How many copies did Somber Echoes sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 349 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $36k–$96k after Steam's cut $65k–$148k before Steam's cut; from 349 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 Somber Echoes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Somber Echoes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 218k–283k

best case 918k (Night in the Woods)

Games like Somber Echoes

A typical game among these

≈ 218k–283k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Night in the Woods at ≈ 699k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M 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 170 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Dark Humor, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Stylized + Dark Humor + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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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