How much revenue did THE IMPOSSIBLE make?

$20k–$54k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did THE IMPOSSIBLE sell?

Q: How many copies did THE IMPOSSIBLE sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 588 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $36k–$83k before Steam's cut; from 588 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 THE IMPOSSIBLE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including THE IMPOSSIBLE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 189k–455k

best case 2.4M (The Talos Principle)

Games like THE IMPOSSIBLE

A typical game among these

≈ 189k–455k copies

≈ $2.3M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

Best case: The Talos Principle at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 835 reviews in their first month; the range was 322 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Philosophical, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, 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 70 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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