How much revenue did Ori and the Blind Forest make?

Ori and the Blind Forest is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Ori and the Blind Forest sell?

Q: How many copies did Ori and the Blind Forest sell?

2.9M to 4.8M copies, based on its 60k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.9M–4.8M; from 60k 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 Ori and the Blind Forest and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Ori and the Blind Forest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.8M–13.9M

best case 25.6M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Ori and the Blind Forest

A typical game among these

≈ 5.8M–13.9M copies

≈ $44.6M–$95.0M after Steam's cut

from ~185k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.5M–31.6M copies, ≈ $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (3 of 4) and 2D Platformer (1 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.5M–31.6M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut $145.9M–$332.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	566k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Cuphead 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $41.9M–$112.7M after Steam's cut $76.2M–$173.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DifficultCartoon
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut $45.3M–$103.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	149k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult