How much revenue did fiction.colors make?

$774–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did fiction.colors sell?

Q: How many copies did fiction.colors sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 57 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $774–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 57 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 fiction.colors and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including fiction.colors's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 50k–73k

best case 243k (THE LONGING)

Games like fiction.colors

A typical game among these

≈ 50k–73k copies

≈ $260k–$690k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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 LONGING at ≈ 185k–301k copies, ≈ $764k–$2.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 469 reviews in their first month; the range was 21 to 845.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Walking Simulator, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Point & Click + Idler + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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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