How much revenue did A Forgetful Loop make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Forgetful Loop sell?

Q: How many copies did A Forgetful Loop sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 11 reviews (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 A Forgetful Loop and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Forgetful Loop's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–25k

best case 202k (Uplink)

Games like A Forgetful Loop

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–25k copies

≈ $52k–$109k after Steam's cut

from ~375 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Uplink at ≈ 154k–251k copies, ≈ $508k–$1.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Sci-fi (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sci-fi, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Open World + Sci-fi + Psychedelic; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 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 79 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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