How much revenue did Spirits make?

$18k–$49k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spirits sell?

Q: How many copies did Spirits sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 262 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $18k–$49k after Steam's cut $33k–$75k before Steam's cut; from 262 reviews (Mixed)

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 Spirits and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spirits's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 435k–635k

best case 1.1M (FAR: Lone Sails)

Games like Spirits

A typical game among these

≈ 435k–635k copies

≈ $2.6M–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FAR: Lone Sails at ≈ 806k–1.3M copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 360 reviews in their first month; the range was 20 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Post-apocalyptic + Exploration, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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