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)

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 Back to the Scene and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Back to the Scene's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 592k–684k

best case 3.5M (Outer Wilds)

Games like Back to the Scene

A typical game among these

≈ 592k–684k copies

≈ $3.7M–$12.9M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Outer Wilds at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $18.5M–$49.7M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 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.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 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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