How much revenue did Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale make?

$681–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale sell?

Q: How many copies did Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $681–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 20 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 Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–28k

best case 192k (Patrick's Parabox)

Games like Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–28k copies

≈ $2k–$116k after Steam's cut

from ~157 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Patrick's Parabox at ≈ 146k–237k copies, ≈ $803k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 30 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 897.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Logic (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Sokoban, priced around $20.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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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Patrick's Parabox 2022	Est. copies ≈ 146k–237k 38x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $803k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleSokoban
Rob Riches 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before Steam's cut	$6.99	81 reviews Very Positive	Puzzle Platformer
Can of Wormholes 2023	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $81k–$218k after Steam's cut $147k–$336k before Steam's cut	$19.99	595 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SokobanIndie
Hexologic 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42k–67k 8.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $57k–$153k after Steam's cut $104k–$236k before Steam's cut	$4.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	LogicPuzzle
Knight Swap 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$0.99	149 reviews Very Positive	SokobanPuzzle
Chess Brain: Dark Troops 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$2.99	64 reviews Very Positive	ChessPuzzle
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