How much revenue did Only Straight and Up! make?

$956–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Only Straight and Up! sell?

Q: How many copies did Only Straight and Up! sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $956–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 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 Only Straight and Up! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Only Straight and Up!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 196k–691k

best case 841k (The Crew Motorfest)

Games like Only Straight and Up!

A typical game among these

≈ 196k–691k copies

≈ $361k–$7.9M 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: The Crew Motorfest at ≈ 641k–1.0M copies, ≈ $12.3M–$33.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 376 reviews in their first month; the range was 117 to 725.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (8 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $70.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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