How much revenue did Crowd Sign: Emission make?

$41–$110 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crowd Sign: Emission sell?

Q: How many copies did Crowd Sign: Emission sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $41–$110 after Steam's cut $74–$169 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Crowd Sign: Emission and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crowd Sign: Emission's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.9M

best case 2.4M (What Remains of Edith Finch)

Games like Crowd Sign: Emission

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–1.9M copies

≈ $5.1M–$15.0M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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.

Best case: What Remains of Edith Finch at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $10.1M–$27.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Walking Simulator, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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What Remains of Edith Finch 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $10.1M–$27.2M after Steam's cut $18.4M–$41.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichAtmospheric
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