How much revenue did Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse sell?

Q: How many copies did Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 32 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 Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 136k–337k

best case 850k (There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension)

Games like Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse

A typical game among these

≈ 136k–337k copies

≈ $1.0M–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Multiple Endings (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension at ≈ 648k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 421 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Multiple Endings (3 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Puzzle, priced around $13.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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