How much revenue did You Must make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did You Must sell?

Q: How many copies did You Must sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 540 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before Steam's cut; from 540 reviews (Mostly 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 You Must and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including You Must's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 140k–358k

best case 2.1M (Chained Together)

Games like You Must

A typical game among these

≈ 140k–358k copies

≈ $997k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Chained Together at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 518 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (6 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Casual + Puzzle-Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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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