How much revenue did A Little to the Left make?

$2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Little to the Left sell?

Q: How many copies did A Little to the Left sell?

478k to 777k copies, based on its 19k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 478k–777k; $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before Steam's cut; from 19k 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 A Little to the Left and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Little to the Left's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 290k–384k

best case 1.9M (PowerWash Simulator)

Games like A Little to the Left

A typical game among these

≈ 290k–384k copies

≈ $971k–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

Best case: PowerWash Simulator at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $10.0M–$27.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 778 reviews in their first month; the range was 321 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Wholesome (6 of 8) and Cozy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + First-Person, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry First-Person + 3D + Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 36 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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