How much revenue did Class of '09 make?

$622k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Class of '09 sell?

Q: How many copies did Class of '09 sell?

226k to 368k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 226k–368k; $622k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Class of '09 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Class of '09's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 103k–440k

best case 1.9M (The Henry Stickmin Collection)

Games like Class of '09

A typical game among these

≈ 103k–440k copies

≈ $450k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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 Henry Stickmin Collection at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.4M 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 21 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (8 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Multiple Endings + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $15.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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