How much revenue did The Baby In Yellow make?

$155k–$417k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Baby In Yellow sell?

Q: How many copies did The Baby In Yellow sell?

63k to 102k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 63k–102k; $155k–$417k after Steam's cut $282k–$641k before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Baby In Yellow and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Baby In Yellow's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.8M–6.8M

best case 32.0M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like The Baby In Yellow

A typical game among these

≈ 3.8M–6.8M copies

≈ $40.9M–$67.3M after Steam's cut

from ~152k 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: Cyberpunk 2077 at ≈ 24.4M–39.6M copies, ≈ $402.0M–$1080.8M 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 44k reviews in their first month; the range was 14k to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (5 of 8) and Survival (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Open World + Survival Horror + Cyberpunk; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 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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