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How many copies did You Are Weak sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 223–363
$183–$494 after Steam's cut $333–$760 before Steam's cut
from 9 reviews (9 user reviews)
Only 9 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 You Are Weak and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including You Are Weak's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 141k–989k
best case 4.1M (Buckshot Roulette)
Games like You Are Weak

A typical game among these

≈ 141k–989k copies

≈ $283k–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Buckshot Roulette at ≈ 3.1M–5.1M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$6.9M 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 616 to 16k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share First-Person (6 of 8) and Experimental (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Dark + Gambling, priced around $3.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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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