How much revenue did Return home make?

$735–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Return home sell?

Q: How many copies did Return home sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $735–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 18 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 Return home and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return home's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–5.3M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Return home

A typical game among these

≈ 41k–5.3M copies

≈ $82k–$38.8M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 21k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and 3D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2024, 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 79 for the oldest, 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
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.6M–20.5M 35x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut $63.0M–$143.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	199k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–48.0M 83x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut $147.5M–$335.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	467k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4 2010	Est. copies ≈ 603k–980k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	LEGOAdventure
LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 8.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $16.5M–$44.5M after Steam's cut $30.1M–$68.4M before Steam's cut	$49.99	48k reviews Very Positive	LEGOAdventure
Sunset Shapes 2020	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before Steam's cut	$2.99	20 reviews Positive	3D PlatformerPuzzle-Platformer
SMIB: Mission Cure 2020	Est. copies ≈ 645–1k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $353–$949 after Steam's cut $642–$1k before Steam's cut	$1.99	26 reviews Positive	Early AccessSpace
LEGO® Harry Potter™ Collection 2024	Est. copies ≈ 41k–67k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $455k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $828k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	2k reviews Very Positive	CasualLEGO
Kiki 2024	Est. copies ≈ 43k–70k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $59k–$158k after Steam's cut $107k–$244k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Mostly Negative	Exploration3D Platformer