How much revenue did What Comes After make?

$35k–$95k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did What Comes After sell?

Q: How many copies did What Comes After sell?

26k to 42k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–42k; $35k–$95k after Steam's cut $64k–$147k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 What Comes After and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including What Comes After's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 169k–381k

best case 447k (The Invincible)

Games like What Comes After

A typical game among these

≈ 169k–381k copies

≈ $1.2M–$2.5M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Invincible at ≈ 341k–554k copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 67 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (7 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Robots + Futuristic, priced around $30.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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