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How many copies did Far Away Horse sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 595–967
$162–$436 after Steam's cut $295–$670 before Steam's cut
from 24 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 Far Away Horse and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Far Away Horse's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 777k–1.5M
best case 1.7M (My Time at Portia)
Games like Far Away Horse

A typical game among these

≈ 777k–1.5M copies

≈ $10.4M–$14.9M after Steam's cut

from ~28k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: My Time at Portia at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.5M–$28.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 20 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 19k.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Life Sim (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Life Sim + Open World, priced around $30.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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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