How much revenue did Northern Journey make?

$304k–$818k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Northern Journey sell?

Q: How many copies did Northern Journey sell?

92k to 150k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 92k–150k; $304k–$818k after Steam's cut $553k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Northern Journey and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Northern Journey's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–4.8M

best case 12.2M (Hogwarts Legacy)

Games like Northern Journey

A typical game among these

≈ 1.8M–4.8M copies

≈ $25.5M–$85.6M after Steam's cut

from ~94k 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: Hogwarts Legacy at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies, ≈ $153.2M–$412.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 48k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 171k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Magic + Open World, priced around $60.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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