How much revenue did High On Life make?

$7.0M–$18.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did High On Life sell?

Q: How many copies did High On Life sell?

640k to 1.0M copies, based on its 26k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 640k–1.0M; $7.0M–$18.9M after Steam's cut $12.8M–$29.1M before Steam's cut; from 26k 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 High On Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including High On Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–15.1M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like High On Life

A typical game among these

≈ 32k–15.1M copies

≈ $75k–$70.6M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 731 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark Humor (7 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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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