How much revenue did Only Up: With Friends make?

$61k–$163k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Only Up: With Friends sell?

Q: How many copies did Only Up: With Friends sell?

44k to 72k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 44k–72k; $61k–$163k after Steam's cut $110k–$251k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Only Up: With Friends and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Only Up: With Friends's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 86k–198k

best case 360k (Sonic Lost World)

Games like Only Up: With Friends

A typical game among these

≈ 86k–198k copies

≈ $209k–$872k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Sonic Lost World at ≈ 274k–446k copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 209 reviews in their first month; the range was 143 to 519.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Parkour (5 of 8) and 3D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + 3D Platformer, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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