How much revenue did 9 Days make?

$229k–$617k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 9 Days sell?

Q: How many copies did 9 Days sell?

56k to 90k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 56k–90k; $229k–$617k after Steam's cut $417k–$949k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 9 Days and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 9 Days's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.8M–16.4M

best case 20.7M (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition)

Games like 9 Days

A typical game among these

≈ 4.8M–16.4M copies

≈ $43.2M–$243.1M after Steam's cut

from ~117k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition at ≈ 15.8M–25.6M copies, ≈ $173.2M–$465.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (8 of 8) and Open World (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, and none of them 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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