How much revenue did THE GAME make?

$515–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did THE GAME sell?

Q: How many copies did THE GAME sell?

942 to 2k copies, based on its 38 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 942–2k; $515–$1k after Steam's cut $937–$2k before Steam's cut; from 38 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 THE GAME and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including THE GAME's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 235k–747k

best case 1.3M (FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster)

Games like THE GAME

A typical game among these

≈ 235k–747k copies

≈ $2.5M–$8.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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 Female Protagonist (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: FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster at ≈ 986k–1.6M copies, ≈ $8.1M–$21.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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CrossCode 2018	Est. copies ≈ 562k–914k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Very Positive	Action RPGPixel Graphics
Rakuen 2017	Est. copies ≈ 204k–332k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $841k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	6k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichEmotional
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