How many copies did flaming/million sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did flaming/million make?

flaming/million is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is flaming/million?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 248–403; from 10 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 flaming/million and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including flaming/million's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 315k–476k

best case 669k (BONELAB)

Games like flaming/million

A typical game among these

≈ 315k–476k copies

≈ $1.2M–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Visual Novel (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: BONELAB at ≈ 509k–828k copies, ≈ $5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 636 reviews in their first month; the range was 100 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (4 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Physics, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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THE LONGING 2020	Est. copies ≈ 185k–301k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $764k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Point & ClickWalking Simulator
Coffee Talk 2020	Est. copies ≈ 314k–510k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut	$12.99	13k reviews Very Positive	ConversationPixel Graphics
BONELAB 2022	Est. copies ≈ 509k–828k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's cut $10.2M–$23.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	21k reviews Very Positive	VRPhysics
Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) 2019	Est. copies ≈ 258k–420k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $355k–$953k after Steam's cut $645k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	EmotionalRelaxing
Revue Starlight El Dorado 2024	Est. copies ≈ 25k–40k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $204k–$549k after Steam's cut $372k–$845k before Steam's cut	$29.99	999 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelAdventure
A Mortician's Tale 2017	Est. copies ≈ 49k–80k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $136k–$364k after Steam's cut $246k–$561k before Steam's cut	$9.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	CasualIndie
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