How much revenue did Experimentation make?

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

How many copies did Experimentation sell?

Q: How many copies did Experimentation sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 99 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 99 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 Experimentation and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Experimentation's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–121k

best case 10.3M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Experimentation

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–121k copies

≈ $41k–$526k 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies. 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 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 87 to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Dark, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Multiple Endings + Dating Sim + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 61 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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