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)

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 Ori and the Blind Forest out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Ori and the Blind Forest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.7M–13.8M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Ori and the Blind Forest

The middle of these games

≈ 5.7M–13.8M copies

≈ $44.1M–$94.3M after Steam's cut

from ~184k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.3M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.5M–$213.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (3 of 4) and 2D Platformer (1 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 ≈ 19.3M–31.3M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $79.5M–$213.7M after Steam's cut $144.5M–$328.8M before the cut	$14.99	561k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Cuphead 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $41.7M–$112.1M after Steam's cut $75.8M–$172.5M before the cut	$19.99	220k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DifficultCartoon
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.0M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.2M before the cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.6M–$66.0M after Steam's cut $44.7M–$101.6M before the cut	$19.99	147k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult