How much revenue did Some Goodbyes We Made make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Some Goodbyes We Made sell?

Q: How many copies did Some Goodbyes We Made sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 185 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$26k before Steam's cut; from 185 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 Some Goodbyes We Made and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Some Goodbyes We Made's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 300k–600k

best case 1.6M (Sally Face - Episode One)

Games like Some Goodbyes We Made

A typical game among these

≈ 300k–600k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Sally Face - Episode One at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 542 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Narrative (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Psychological Horror, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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