How much revenue did Yin Yang Space make?

$41–$109 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Yin Yang Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Yin Yang Space sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $41–$109 after Steam's cut $74–$168 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 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 Yin Yang Space and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yin Yang Space's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–15k

best case 1.2M (Mountain)

Games like Yin Yang Space

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–15k copies

≈ $2k–$86k after Steam's cut

from ~44 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Mountain at ≈ 912k–1.5M copies, ≈ $248k–$668k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 327.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + God Game, priced around $1.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 3 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 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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Trash is Fun 2022	Est. copies ≈ 967–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut	$5.99	39 reviews Positive	Survival Simulation
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Start Over 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k 8.8x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $39k–$105k after Steam's cut $71k–$162k before Steam's cut	$14.99	382 reviews Mixed	SurvivalBase-Building
Tower Defense - Fantasy Legends Tower Game 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut	$4.99	42 reviews Mixed	Tower DefenseCasual
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