How much revenue did One Way: The Elevator make?

$13k–$35k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did One Way: The Elevator sell?

Q: How many copies did One Way: The Elevator sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 472 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before Steam's cut; from 472 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 One Way: The Elevator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including One Way: The Elevator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 22k–83k

best case 181k (Moncage)

Games like One Way: The Elevator

A typical game among these

≈ 22k–83k copies

≈ $34k–$209k after Steam's cut

from ~859 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Moncage at ≈ 138k–224k copies, ≈ $568k–$1.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 304 reviews in their first month; the range was 28 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Drama, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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 43 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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