How many copies did Welcome to Emba sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 48 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Welcome to Emba make?

Welcome to Emba is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Welcome to Emba?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1k–2k; from 48 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 Welcome to Emba and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Welcome to Emba's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 160k–635k

best case 1.5M (Nine Sols)

Games like Welcome to Emba

A typical game among these

≈ 160k–635k copies

≈ $917k–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Story Rich (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Nine Sols at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.4M–$25.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (3 of 8) and Exploration (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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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