How much revenue did Matchmaking Inc. make?

$453k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Matchmaking Inc. sell?

Q: How many copies did Matchmaking Inc. sell?

183k to 298k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 183k–298k; $453k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $824k–$1.9M before Steam's cut; from 7k reviews (Very 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 Matchmaking Inc. and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Matchmaking Inc.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 538k–1.5M

best case 2.4M (UNO)

Games like Matchmaking Inc.

A typical game among these

≈ 538k–1.5M copies

≈ $3.4M–$8.8M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dating Sim (5 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Tabletop, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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 43 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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