How much revenue did What's Missing? make?

$545–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did What's Missing? sell?

Q: How many copies did What's Missing? sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $545–$1k after Steam's cut $991–$2k before Steam's cut; from 10 reviews (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 What's Missing? and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including What's Missing?'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 419k–1.1M

best case 1.1M (Superliminal)

Games like What's Missing?

A typical game among these

≈ 419k–1.1M copies

≈ $3.7M–$9.3M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Superliminal at ≈ 848k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 680 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + First-Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 79 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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