How much revenue did Pygmalion make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pygmalion sell?

Q: How many copies did Pygmalion sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 113 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before Steam's cut; from 113 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 Pygmalion and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pygmalion's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 57k–64k

best case 69k (Evan's Remains)

Games like Pygmalion

A typical game among these

≈ 57k–64k copies

≈ $253k–$353k 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.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Evan's Remains at ≈ 53k–86k copies, ≈ $102k–$274k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 157 reviews in their first month; the range was 77 to 509.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Visual Novel, priced around $7.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 52 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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