How much revenue did Closer the Distance make?

$40k–$107k 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 293 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $40k–$107k after Steam's cut $73k–$165k before the cut; from 293 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Closer the Distance out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Closer the Distance's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 781–3k

best case 104k (Wanderstop)

Games like Closer the Distance

The middle of these games

≈ 781–3k copies

≈ $3k–$9k after Steam's cut

from ~33 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Wanderstop at ≈ 80k–129k copies, ≈ $547k–$1.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 38 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Life Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim, priced around $25.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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