How much revenue did Closer the Distance make?

$40k–$108k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Closer the Distance sell?

Q: How many copies did Closer the Distance sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 296 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $40k–$108k after Steam's cut $73k–$167k before Steam's cut; from 296 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 Closer the Distance and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Closer the Distance's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 781–3k

best case 106k (Wanderstop)

Games like Closer the Distance

A typical game among these

≈ 781–3k copies

≈ $3k–$9k after Steam's cut

from ~33 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: Wanderstop at ≈ 81k–131k copies, ≈ $554k–$1.5M 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 38 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 1k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Life Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim, priced around $25.
When they shipped: Only 3 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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