How much revenue did IfSunSets make?

$342k–$919k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did IfSunSets sell?

Q: How many copies did IfSunSets sell?

62k to 101k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 62k–101k; $342k–$919k after Steam's cut $621k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 IfSunSets and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including IfSunSets's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 236–4k

best case 10k (Serum: Toxic Survival)

Games like IfSunSets

A typical game among these

≈ 236–4k copies

≈ $245–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~14 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Nature (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Serum: Toxic Survival at ≈ 8k–13k copies, ≈ $54k–$145k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 153 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Nature (4 of 8) and Survival (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + FPS, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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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