How much revenue did Moving Through Life make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Moving Through Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Moving Through Life sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 79 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 79 reviews (Mixed)

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 Moving Through Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Moving Through Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 181k–274k

best case 408k (Hello Kitty Island Adventure)

Games like Moving Through Life

A typical game among these

≈ 181k–274k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Hello Kitty Island Adventure at ≈ 311k–505k copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 894 reviews in their first month; the range was 485 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cozy (7 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cozy + Open World, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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