How much revenue did SILT make?

$101k–$272k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SILT sell?

Q: How many copies did SILT sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 990 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; $101k–$272k after Steam's cut $184k–$419k before the cut; from 990 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left SILT out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SILT's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.7M–22.6M

best case 38.7M (Portal 2)

Games like SILT

The middle of these games

≈ 8.7M–22.6M copies

≈ $83.8M–$155.2M after Steam's cut

from ~269k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Story Rich (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–47.9M copies, ≈ $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 69k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 171k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (4 of 8) and Female Protagonist (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2004 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 79 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
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.6M–20.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut $62.8M–$142.8M before the cut	$9.99	199k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Stray 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $36.3M–$97.6M after Steam's cut $66.0M–$150.1M before the cut	$29.99	177k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsAdventure
It Takes Two 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6.7M–10.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $73.4M–$197.4M after Steam's cut $133.5M–$303.6M before the cut	$39.99	269k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–47.9M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut $147.2M–$334.8M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Half-Life 2 2004	Est. copies ≈ 17.6M–28.7M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $48.5M–$130.3M after Steam's cut $88.1M–$200.5M before the cut	$9.99	279k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSAction
Tomb Raider Game of the Year 2013	Est. copies ≈ 17.0M–27.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $93.7M–$251.9M after Steam's cut $170.4M–$387.6M before the cut	$19.99	270k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction
Resident Evil 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $70.3M–$189.0M after Steam's cut $127.8M–$290.8M before the cut	$39.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
Hogwarts Legacy 2023	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $152.1M–$408.9M after Steam's cut $276.5M–$629.1M before the cut	$59.99	372k reviews Very Positive	MagicOpen World