How much revenue did inbento make?

$101k–$272k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did inbento sell?

Q: How many copies did inbento sell?

74k to 120k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74k–120k; $101k–$272k after Steam's cut $184k–$419k before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 inbento and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including inbento's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 526k–1.1M

best case 1.3M (Unheard - Voices of Crime)

Games like inbento

A typical game among these

≈ 526k–1.1M copies

≈ $3.1M–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~17k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Unheard - Voices of Crime at ≈ 981k–1.6M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 896 reviews in their first month; the range was 70 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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