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How many copies did Song of Farca sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 42k–68k
$231k–$620k after Steam's cut $419k–$954k before Steam's cut
from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Song of Farca and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Song of Farca's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 894k–1.8M
best case 3.6M (BioShock™ Remastered)
Games like Song of Farca

A typical game among these

≈ 894k–1.8M copies

≈ $5.7M–$16.1M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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: BioShock™ Remastered at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $14.9M–$40.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Choices Matter (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Story Rich, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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