How much revenue did Three Minutes To Eight make?

$21k–$56k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Three Minutes To Eight sell?

Q: How many copies did Three Minutes To Eight sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 202 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$85k before Steam's cut; from 202 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 Three Minutes To Eight and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Three Minutes To Eight's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–3.6M

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like Three Minutes To Eight

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–3.6M copies

≈ $11.0M–$15.7M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–14.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 11k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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