How much revenue did La Jetée make?

$81–$218 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did La Jetée sell?

Q: How many copies did La Jetée sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $81–$218 after Steam's cut $148–$335 before Steam's cut; from 12 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 La Jetée and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including La Jetée's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–57k

best case 3.3M (The Wolf Among Us)

Games like La Jetée

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–57k copies

≈ $7k–$332k after Steam's cut

from ~280 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Wolf Among Us at ≈ 2.5M–4.1M copies, ≈ $10.5M–$28.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 141 reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Story Rich, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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 79 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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Tron: Identity 2023	Est. copies ≈ 7k–12k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $30k–$81k after Steam's cut $54k–$124k before Steam's cut	$14.99	293 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureVisual Novel
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