How much revenue did Love in Belarus make?

$815–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Love in Belarus sell?

Q: How many copies did Love in Belarus sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 60 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $815–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 60 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 Love in Belarus and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Love in Belarus's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–294k

best case 4.7M (Spec Ops: The Line)

Games like Love in Belarus

A typical game among these

≈ 14k–294k copies

≈ $86k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~976 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: Spec Ops: The Line at ≈ 3.6M–5.8M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Third-Person Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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