How many copies did The Space in Between sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 126 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did The Space in Between make?

The Space in Between is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is The Space in Between?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 3k–5k; from 126 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 Space in Between and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Space in Between's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 156k–736k

best case 1.1M (Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk)

Games like The Space in Between

A typical game among these

≈ 156k–736k copies

≈ $560k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk at ≈ 853k–1.4M copies, ≈ $349k–$939k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 210 reviews in their first month; the range was 163 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (5 of 8) and Experimental (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $1.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 1 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 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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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk 2020	Est. copies ≈ 853k–1.4M 7.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $349k–$939k after Steam's cut $635k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$1.49	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual Novel Psychological Horror
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