How much revenue did Back to the Scene make?

Back to the Scene is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Back to the Scene sell?

Q: How many copies did Back to the Scene sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 43 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; from 43 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 585k–680k

best case 3.5M (Outer Wilds)

Games like Back to the Scene

The middle of these games

≈ 585k–680k copies

≈ $3.7M–$12.8M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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.

Best case: Outer Wilds at ≈ 2.7M–4.3M copies, ≈ $18.3M–$49.2M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Space, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Space + Great Soundtrack + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 of your 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 52 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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