How much revenue did Recollection make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Recollection sell?

Q: How many copies did Recollection sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 134 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 134 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 Recollection and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Recollection's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–71k

best case 173k (Spilled!)

Games like Recollection

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–71k copies

≈ $996–$264k after Steam's cut

from ~158 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Cozy (4 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: Spilled! at ≈ 132k–214k copies, ≈ $217k–$584k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cozy (4 of 8) and Nature (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Short + Linear, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 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 36 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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