How much revenue did UNREAL LIFE make?

$271k–$729k 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?

49k to 80k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–80k; $271k–$729k after Steam's cut $493k–$1.1M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 UNREAL LIFE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including UNREAL LIFE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–5k

best case 67k (OXENFREE II: Lost Signals)

Games like UNREAL LIFE

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–5k copies

≈ $14k–$38k after Steam's cut

from ~94 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: OXENFREE II: Lost Signals at ≈ 51k–84k copies, ≈ $283k–$760k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 39 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 845.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 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.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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