How much revenue did The Aching make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Aching sell?

Q: How many copies did The Aching sell?

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

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 25 reviews (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 Aching and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Aching's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–129k

best case 1.1M (Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk)

Games like The Aching

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–129k copies

≈ $298k–$578k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk at ≈ 853k–1.4M copies, ≈ $349k–$939k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Psychological Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $1. The breakout hits carry Experimental + Abstract + Psychological; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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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