How much revenue did YOKO make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did YOKO sell?

Q: How many copies did YOKO sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 18 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 YOKO and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including YOKO's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 436k–1.4M

best case 6.0M (SPORE™)

Games like YOKO

A typical game among these

≈ 436k–1.4M copies

≈ $2.5M–$15.2M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SPORE™ at ≈ 4.6M–7.5M copies, ≈ $25.3M–$68.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 116 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (5 of 8) and Cinematic (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with God Game + Open World, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2022, and none of them 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 79 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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