How much revenue did UNREAL LIFE make?

$273k–$733k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did UNREAL LIFE sell?

Q: How many copies did UNREAL LIFE sell?

50k to 81k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50k–81k; $273k–$733k after Steam's cut $496k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 UNREAL LIFE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including UNREAL LIFE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–5k

best case 68k (OXENFREE II: Lost Signals)

Games like UNREAL LIFE

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–5k copies

≈ $14k–$38k after Steam's cut

from ~94 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: OXENFREE II: Lost Signals at ≈ 52k–84k copies, ≈ $284k–$762k 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 39 reviews in their first month; the range was 8 to 845.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Thriller + Supernatural, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Thriller + Supernatural + Mystery; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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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