How much revenue did The Way Home make?

$190–$511 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Way Home sell?

Q: How many copies did The Way Home sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $190–$511 after Steam's cut $345–$786 before Steam's cut; from 14 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 The Way Home and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Way Home's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 505–3k

best case 210k (Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout)

Games like The Way Home

A typical game among these

≈ 505–3k copies

≈ $715–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~45 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: Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout at ≈ 160k–260k copies, ≈ $439k–$1.2M 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 32 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 1k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Thriller + Atmospheric + Narrative; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout 2023	Est. copies ≈ 160k–260k 143x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $439k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $799k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike 2022	Est. copies ≈ 85k–138k 76x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $117k–$314k after Steam's cut $212k–$483k before Steam's cut	$4.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Psychological Horror Horror
ArcticBoy: The Interactive Story 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $804–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$0.99	119 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureDrama
Horror Drift (ホラードリフト) 2024	Est. copies ≈ 248–403 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $340–$915 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before Steam's cut	$4.99	10 reviews Mixed	RacingDriving
Mystic Rest Stop 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut	$3.99	73 reviews Mixed	HorrorAtmospheric
Night Bus 2024	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k 6.1x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut	$4.99	275 reviews Very Positive	HorrorIndie
Midnight Shift 2024	Est. copies ≈ 422–685 SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $347–$932 after Steam's cut $631–$1k before Steam's cut	$2.99	17 reviews Mostly Negative	Horror3D
Right Turn 2024	Est. copies ≈ 372–605 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $510–$1k after Steam's cut $928–$2k before Steam's cut	$4.99	15 reviews Positive	Horror Psychological Horror