How many copies did Left on Read sell?

130k to 211k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Left on Read make?

Left on Read is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Left on Read?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 130k–211k; from 5k 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 Left on Read and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Left on Read's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 739k–1.1M

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like Left on Read

A typical game among these

≈ 739k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Romance (3 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: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Romance (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Life Sim + Character Customization; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
The Sims™ 4 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	201k reviews Very Positive	Life SimCharacter Customization
Emily is Away 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStory Rich
NEKOPARA Vol. 0 2015	Est. copies ≈ 869k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $715k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut	$2.99	18k reviews Very Positive	AnimeNudity
NEKOPARA Vol. 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 535k–870k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeSexual Content
Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 691k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $948k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
SteamVR unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M 5.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	87k reviews Very Positive	VRSoftware
missed messages. 2019	Est. copies ≈ 448k–728k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Free to PlayVisual Novel
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension 2020	Est. copies ≈ 648k–1.1M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before Steam's cut	$12.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndieAdventure