How much revenue did ONCE IN MY HEAD make?

$61–$164 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ONCE IN MY HEAD sell?

Q: How many copies did ONCE IN MY HEAD sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $61–$164 after Steam's cut $111–$253 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 ONCE IN MY HEAD and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ONCE IN MY HEAD's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 877k–1.0M

best case 2.9M (Noita)

Games like ONCE IN MY HEAD

A typical game among these

≈ 877k–1.0M copies

≈ $3.1M–$7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~27k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Noita at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Action RPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Physics + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 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 70 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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