How much revenue did Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk make?

$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk sell?

Q: How many copies did Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk sell?

556k to 903k copies, based on its 22k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 556k–903k; $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut; from 22k 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 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 77k–394k

best case 1.9M (NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD)

Games like Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

A typical game among these

≈ 77k–394k copies

≈ $231k–$5.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Anime (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: NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD at ≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 164 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (4 of 8) and Psychological Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Anime, priced around $16.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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