How much revenue did Will Die Alone make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Will Die Alone sell?

Q: How many copies did Will Die Alone sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 67 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 67 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 Will Die Alone and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Will Die Alone's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 97k–249k

best case 428k (The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante)

Games like Will Die Alone

A typical game among these

≈ 97k–249k copies

≈ $415k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante at ≈ 326k–529k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 349 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Anime (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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