How much revenue did Northern Journey make?

$303k–$815k 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 149k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 92k–149k; $303k–$815k after Steam's cut $551k–$1.3M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Northern Journey out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Northern Journey's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–4.7M

best case 12.1M (Hogwarts Legacy)

Games like Northern Journey

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–4.7M copies

≈ $25.0M–$85.1M after Steam's cut

from ~93k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Hogwarts Legacy at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $152.1M–$408.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Magic + Open World, priced around $60.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche 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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