How much revenue did Departed Away make?

$19k–$52k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Departed Away sell?

Q: How many copies did Departed Away sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 572 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $19k–$52k after Steam's cut $35k–$81k before Steam's cut; from 572 reviews (Very 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 Departed Away and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Departed Away's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 669k–1.2M

best case 10.3M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Departed Away

A typical game among these

≈ 669k–1.2M copies

≈ $4.4M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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: 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Dating Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Horror + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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Senren＊Banka 2020	Est. copies ≈ 923k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$23.9M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	37k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelNSFW
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