How much revenue did Drawing From Memory make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Drawing From Memory sell?

Q: How many copies did Drawing From Memory sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 247 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut; from 247 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Drawing From Memory out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drawing From Memory's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24.0M–42.2M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like Drawing From Memory

The middle of these games

≈ 24.0M–42.2M copies

≈ $79.9M–$216.7M after Steam's cut

from ~611k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (2 of 8) and Physics (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, 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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