How much revenue did Facing make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Facing sell?

Q: How many copies did Facing sell?

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

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 26 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 Facing and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Facing's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–23k

best case 30k (Fight Crab)

Games like Facing

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–23k copies

≈ $17k–$124k after Steam's cut

from ~408 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Sports (4 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: Fight Crab at ≈ 23k–37k copies, ≈ $126k–$339k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 236 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 323.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sports (4 of 8) and 4 Player Local (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Spectacle fighter + Sports, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 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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Play With Me: Escape Room 2018	Est. copies ≈ 16k–27k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $25k–$56k before Steam's cut	$2.99	540 reviews Mixed	MysteryAtmospheric
Can't Drive This 2021	Est. copies ≈ 9k–14k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $48k–$128k after Steam's cut $87k–$197k before Steam's cut	$19.99	350 reviews Very Positive	Local Co-OpLocal Multiplayer
Berzerk Flashback 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $10k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$43k before Steam's cut	$9.99	151 reviews Very Positive	Casual2D
Gravity Field 2023	Est. copies ≈ 21k–35k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $176k–$474k after Steam's cut $321k–$729k before Steam's cut	$29.99	862 reviews Mostly Positive	PuzzleScience
Ultra Space Battle Brawl 2018	Est. copies ≈ 3k–6k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut	$9.99	114 reviews Very Positive	SportsAction
12 orbits 2016	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before Steam's cut	$1.99	293 reviews Very Positive	Local MultiplayerParty Game
Gym Simulator 2018	Est. copies ≈ 14k–23k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$32k before Steam's cut	$1.99	465 reviews Mostly Negative	SimulationSexual Content
Fight Crab 2020	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $126k–$339k after Steam's cut $229k–$522k before Steam's cut	$19.99	925 reviews Very Positive	Spectacle fighterSports