How much revenue did To Make a Game make?

$540–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did To Make a Game sell?

Q: How many copies did To Make a Game sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 80 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $540–$1k after Steam's cut $982–$2k before Steam's cut; from 80 reviews (Very 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 To Make a Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including To Make a Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 191k–255k

best case 1.5M (Love Is All Around)

Games like To Make a Game

A typical game among these

≈ 191k–255k copies

≈ $776k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Love Is All Around at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.4M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 537 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Dating Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dating Sim + Sexual Content, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry FMV + First-Person + Sexual Content; 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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