How much revenue did 5 Days make?

$55–$146 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 5 Days sell?

Q: How many copies did 5 Days sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $55–$146 after Steam's cut $100–$224 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review 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 5 Days and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 5 Days's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–10k

best case 127k (Timespinner)

Games like 5 Days

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–10k copies

≈ $27k–$43k after Steam's cut

from ~222 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Timespinner at ≈ 97k–158k copies, ≈ $533k–$1.4M 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 118 reviews in their first month; the range was 38 to 260.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and Time Manipulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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