How much revenue did Gone Home make?

$3.9M–$10.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gone Home sell?

Q: How many copies did Gone Home sell?

956k to 1.6M copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 956k–1.6M; $3.9M–$10.6M after Steam's cut $7.2M–$16.3M before the cut; from 18k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Gone Home out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gone Home's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–3.0M

best case 10.6M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

The Story Rich genre

All 8 of your similar games are hits. A big, proven genre for a game like yours.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

A typical game

≈ 2.6M–3.0M copies

≈ $17.2M–$18.1M after Steam's cut

from ~46k reviews

Best case

≈ 8.1M–13.2M copies

Life is Strange - Episode 1

A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2017. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count.

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