How much revenue did The Journey Down: Chapter One make?

$157k–$423k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Journey Down: Chapter One sell?

Q: How many copies did The Journey Down: Chapter One sell?

82k to 133k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 82k–133k; $157k–$423k after Steam's cut $286k–$650k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 The Journey Down: Chapter One and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Journey Down: Chapter One's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 68k–102k

best case 5.0M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like The Journey Down: Chapter One

A typical game among these

≈ 68k–102k copies

≈ $336k–$684k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $41.7M–$112.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 261 reviews in their first month; the range was 164 to 859.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Point & Click (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry RPG + Choices Matter + Detective; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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