How much revenue did Viy: Retold Story make?

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

How many copies did Viy: Retold Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Viy: Retold Story sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 50 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 Viy: Retold Story and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Viy: Retold Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–44k

best case 635k (Until Then)

Games like Viy: Retold Story

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–44k copies

≈ $69k–$337k after Steam's cut

from ~849 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Until Then at ≈ 484k–786k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.1M 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 121 reviews in their first month; the range was 100 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (6 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Emotional, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Emotional + Psychological; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 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 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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